Wildlife of Kazakhstan



The wildlife of Kazakhstan includes its flora, fauna, and funga and their natural habitats.

Fauna



 * Argali
 * Bactrian camel
 * Barbel
 * Beluga sturgeon
 * Caspian seal
 * Caspian Sea wolf
 * Central Asian red deer
 * Channidae
 * Common spoonbill
 * Eurasian brown bear
 * Goitered gazelle
 * Golden eagle
 * Gray wolf
 * Great bustard
 * Great gerbil
 * Greater flamingo
 * Spotted whip snake
 * Jerboa
 * Moose
 * Banded Apollo butterfly
 * Reticulated toad-headed agama lizard
 * Russian desman
 * Russian tortoise
 * Saiga antelope
 * Squacco heron
 * Steppe eagle
 * Sterlet
 * Tien Shan dhole
 * Brilliant ground agama lizard
 * Turkmenian kulan
 * Urial
 * Desert monitor
 * White stork

Felidae

 * Caracal
 * Asiatic wildcat
 * Jungle cat
 * Pallas's cat
 * Snow leopard
 * Turkestan lynx
 * Turkestan sand cat

Birds
The avifauna of Kazakhstan includes a total of 513 species, of which 5 are rare or accidental.

Flora and funga
The diversity of a flora of Kazakhstan varies considerably both by structure and number of taxa, and by geography, in particular, by nature-climatic zones and high-altitude belts. In Kazakhstan there are more than 6,000 species of highest vascular plants, about 5,000 species of mushrooms, 485 species of lichen, and more than 2,010 species of seaweed.