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Tashkent's First Public Eco-Park (Oxygen Park) — Native-Species Greening in Yunusabad District

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 89% 27/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Tashkent is building its first public eco-park in Yunusabad district: 7.5 hectares planted with 1,200+ native trees and 23,000 shrubs, plus a wildlife lake and bird-nesting areas — a pilot still under construction with no monitoring data yet published.

7.5 hectares
Park area
1,200+ trees
Trees planted
23,000 shrubs
Shrubs planted
Tashkent's First Public Eco-Park (Oxygen Park) — Native-Species Greening in Yunusabad District

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Tashkent City Administration (Hokimiyat)
Period
2024-2025
Keywords
urban greening, biodiversity, municipal parks

Context

Tashkent's Yunusabad district lacked a dedicated public ecological park amid Uzbekistan's rapid urban growth and the national 'Yashil Makon' tree-planting drive — a separate billion-tree national programme that has itself faced scrutiny over falsified planting reports.

Activities

In 2024–2025 the Tashkent city administration built the capital's first public eco-park, known locally as Oxygen Park, on 7.5 hectares of previously abandoned land, planting more than 1,200 trees and 23,000 shrubs selected for local climate adaptation, alongside a constructed lake, bird-nesting structures, a rose garden and public walkways, drawing design inspiration from European and Japanese parks.

Conclusions

As of the most recent public reporting (April 2025), construction was still under way, and no post-completion ecological monitoring, visitor, or maintenance-funding data have been published. Its documented value lies in native-species planting and habitat design rather than measured outcomes, and it should be read as an early-stage pilot rather than a proven practice.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Built 2024-2025; construction still under way as of the April 2025 source date.
Staffing & skills
Tashkent City Administration (Hokimiyat) — sole implementing authority

Conditions for success

  • Native/climate-adapted tree and shrub species selection for arid urban conditions
  • Design inspiration drawn from European and Japanese park models
  • Use of previously abandoned land (7.5 ha) rather than new land acquisition

Common failure modes

  • No published funding breakdown, multi-stakeholder governance structure, or long-term maintenance plan
  • Construction still under way as of the latest report (April 2025), with no post-completion ecological, visitor or maintenance-funding data published
  • Sits alongside the separate national 'Yashil Makon' tree-planting drive, which has faced scrutiny over falsified planting reports — a caution about self-reported greening figures in this context

Where it fits

Governance type
single municipal authority, no stated multi-stakeholder governance
Scale
single district park (7.5 ha)
Income level
lower-middle-income (Uzbekistan)

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