SCREENINGS
7/6/24 - Stihia Festival, Moynak, Uzbekistan
28/10/24 - Wolfson College, Oxford, UK
02/11/24 - RGS Explore Festival, London, UK
06/11/2024 - Webster University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
13/11/24 - MOC Hub, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
14/11/2024 - New Uzbekistan University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
18/11/24 - St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK
27/11/24 - The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
17/02/25 - Embassy of Uzbekistan, London, UK
17/02/25 - Swiss Partners Day, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
04/02/25 - Ponza Film Festival, Ponza, Italy
02/04/25 - Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London, UK
06/04/25 - Oxford Shorts Festival, Oxford, UK
07/04/25 - Karakalpakstan IT Park, Nukus, Uzbekistan
11/04/25 - Green Transitions Conference at Webster, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
13/04/25 - Erudite Lyceum, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
24/04/25 - Life Sciences Festival, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
16/05/25 - Cambridge University Central Asia Forum, UK
16/10/25 - OSCE Youth Event, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
20/11/25 - AFD Aral Sea Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
05/12/25 - AFD Youth Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan
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OUR GOALS
1. Create resources and opportunities to support increasing engagement in environmentalism for youth in Uzbekistan
2. Promote research into ecology and environmental issues between the UK and Uzbekistan
Since 2023, three Oxford University students and thirty-six students from Karakalpakstan and Khorezm have collaborated to create an oral history film about the Amu Darya Delta in Uzbekistan.
We are now working to create educational resources and workshops on climate and environmental issues in Uzbekistan – which we plan to launch in Uzbek schools from April 2025.
WHY AMU DARYA?
From the 1960s onwards, Soviet overextraction of water from the Amu Darya River for cotton irrigation has been a major cause of the depletion of the Aral Sea. In the Khorezm region alone, 16,000 km of canals were built along the Amu Darya River.
As the Amu Darya was depleted, the downstream Aral Sea began to shrink. Today, this lake is one tenth of its original size.
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AMU DARYA
RIVER
ARAL SEA
Information on the Aral Sea Crisis remains largely unavailable to the public in Uzbekistan.
We are creating media to facilitate and encourage public, student, and institutional discussions on environmentalism in the Aral Sea Region.
Education is the first step to saving the Amu Darya.
