Syunt-Khasardag State Reserve

Nature Reserves of Turkmenistan

Syunt-Khasardag State Reserve: founded in 1977 in the Southwest Kopetdag Mountains (Balkan Velayat) to protect and study wild congeners of cultivated plants, reptiles (cobra and blunt-nosed viper), birds (francolin, Tetraogallus caspius) and mammals (leopard, hyena, urial). Its area is 30,300 hectares.