Malyi Taldykol: "A Wildlife Park with a Parking Lot"
The territory of the Malyi Taldykol Lake system in Kazakhstan's capital has been actively developed since the 2010s, and especially aggressively since 2020. For over four years, the public has been fighting against the destruction of these urban lakes. The green light for the bulldozers and excavators was originally given by the Astana city government itself.