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The title of this paper expresses hope that it is possible to undertake ecological restoration of landscapes in deltas of the Aral Sea. The UNEP diagnostic report on the Aral Sea region (UNEP 1992) listed most of the failures made in the past decades in the Aral Sea region and also pointed out—as have Glazovsky (1990,1991) and Micklin (1988,1991)—that most of the failures are the result of water resources mismanagement. This suggests that the resolution to the present crisis lies in better management of water. From the biological perspective this is not so. Many ecosystems have been totally destroyed without any hope that they can be restored. As an obvious example,the Amu Dar’ya tiger has become extinct in the deltas of the Amu and Syr Dar’ya (Reimov and Kulumbetova 1994). It cannot be resurrected.
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Keyser, D. (1996). The ecological restoration of delta areas of the Aral Sea. In: Micklin, P.P., Williams, W.D. (eds) The Aral Sea Basin. NATO ASI Series, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61182-7_7
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