A film crew from the BBC (UK) has arrived in Turkmenistan to make a documentary about the uniqueness of the country's nature.
Turkmenistan Habarlal Portaly reports that the team has brought all the necessary equipment: camera traps, lenses for micro and macro photography. Turkmenistan is a country of diverse flora and fauna, contrasting landscapes - from desert dunes to riparian thickets on the banks of fast-flowing rivers and Kopet-Dag subtropics.
Explorers will explore the edges of mountain gorges, caves, clear springs and green valleys. Jeyrans galloping over the foothills of Kopet-Dag, camels walking along the waves of barkhans from one oasis to another, snow-white gulls over the raging waters of Caspian Sea are all part of the local fauna, the information says.
"The shooting of the film coincided with the snowfall in the mountains. This will capture the snow leopards, which are endangered." The film will also feature rare plant species such as juniper, Christophe's onion, brown truffle and mandrake.
Turkmenistan was previously visited by a team from National Geographic (USA). The purpose of the expedition was to study the Darvaza gas crater, which has been burning for more than 50 years. The anomaly, which is about 60 metres wide and 20 metres deep, has been unofficially dubbed the "Gates of Hell" thanks to video clips posted on the internet by foreign tourists.
Eziz Boyarov
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