The "Urban Ecology" project of the IDEA Public Union is being implemented in Baku.

In Baku, the “Urban Ecology” project by the IDEA Public Union, aimed at the conservation and reintroduction of fauna species characteristic of the urban environment and previously widespread, is being implemented.

On May 9, within the framework of the project, 20 squirrels were released into a green area in Baku’s Velopark with the participation of Leyla Aliyeva, Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and founder and head of the IDEA Public Union.

As is known, alongside multifaceted efforts to preserve wildlife, wide-ranging measures are also being implemented under Leyla Aliyeva’s initiative for the protection of species belonging to the urban environment. In this regard, the IDEA Animal Care Center operates in Baku to protect street animals, special shelters are set up for cats throughout the city, and other related activities are carried out. The “Urban Ecology” project envisages enriching public areas in Baku and its surroundings with animal and bird species that can comfortably live and reproduce in the urban environment, as well as implementing consistent measures for the conservation of these species.

The main goal of all these efforts is to create harmony between the people living in the city and the environment, strengthening a closer and healthier connection.

In the past, numerous squirrels and parakeets inhabited Baku, freely roaming among people in parks and other green areas. However, due to ecological problems at the end of the last century, the number of these species sharply declined. In recent years, extensive greening and landscaping efforts in the country, especially the initiatives of the IDEA Public Union, along with the reduction of illegal tree cutting and the planting of countless new trees in Baku, have created favorable conditions for the reintroduction of many fauna species in the city.