Shirvan National Park in Baku

Shirvan National Park is located in Azerbaijan, and was created to protect the endangered Jairans (a small mammal of the gazelle genus), which used to be found throughout Azerbaijan. By 1960, they could only be found in Shirvan.

Today in this park care not only for the jairans, now there are also protected and protected wetland ecosystems of lakes Shore-Gol and lake Chala-Gol. It is here that many and including very rare species of birds winter and nest, among them, such as the black-bellied grouse, flamingo, as well as swans, sultan, turaca, drofa, white-tailed eagle, strepep, steppe eagle, sapsan baloban and many others.

Also here you can find various amphibians: toads, frogs, not uncommon are the Caspian, swamp and Mediterranean turtles, water and ordinary, striped lizard, Syrian garlic and gurza. Among other animals in the park live foxes, badgers, boars, wolves, reed cats, jackals and so on.

Thanks to the work of the park staff, the population of many species, including jairans, has increased significantly.