Civic Charity Fund for Protection of Genetic Pool within the Aral Sea Area Website

Website address: http://www.aralgenofond.org      Launch date: August 1, 2005

This Website provides information about the Civic Charity Fund for Protection of Genetic Pool within the Aral Sea Area, its objectives and missions, overall direction of activities, and programs and projects.

Listed are the Founders, Council of Trustees, Executive Directorate and Partners of the Fund.

The Website also contains information about the Aral Sea Region and the cause of Aral Sea drying out.

For better visualization, all statistics on environment, demography, economy and healthcare of the Aral Sea Area are presented as charts and diagrams.

You can eyewitness everyday life of locals living almost in the desert, disappearing animals and vegetation from the Red Book (a book on endangered species) of Karakalpakstan and landscapes of Aral Sea Area.

The design of the website resorts to natural colors – color of sky, color of greenery and color of earth.

Home Page

The pressing nature of the problem is emphasized by the interactive map “Evolution of the Aral Sea” and the dynamic counter “Disappearance of Aral”.

Watch how Aral Sea was shrinking from 1957 to 2003 (+ 2010 forecast) and guess how much water needs to be replenished to save the Aral from drying out.

Each second the water volume of the Aral goes down by 158 m3, and the surface of the lake shrinks by 567 m2. Those, who are curious about how we calculated these, are encouraged to look here.

Interactive map “Evolution of the Aral Sea”

 

Dynamic counter “Disappearance of Aral”

The real adornments of the website are its icons.


Icons drawn for the web site

Project Team

Information Architect, Art Director and Project Manager
Sergey Kapustin

Designer
Elnur Mamedov

Illustrator and Technical Designer
Ilvira Nasreddinova

Programmer
Bakhtiyor Khodjaev

Content Manager
Yana Kiselyova