Objectifs

Pursuing socio-civic, educational, legal, spiritual, cultural, environmental, economic and charitable purposes, the Association has been actively involved in the democratic social reform, in strengthening the principles of democracy, in supporting civic initiatives to maintain and enhance the spiritual and cultural values of the mountains, the identity of its population, the resolution of various conflicts, natural risks and disasters, economic and political issues that hinder sustainable ( balanced ) development of mountainous Pamir, combining local intellectual potential, material and financial resources, organizational capacity. Association for the protection of biodiversity and bio culture of local ecosystems, conservation and restoration of nature, cultural and historical heritage of mountain communities, public physical and spiritual health, sustainable use of local resources, environmental and biological safety, struggles with comparative inequalities that exist in the mountain communities and mountain families, represents the interests of mountain communities of GBAO in public, government, international organizations and institutions of the Republic of Tajikistan and world, encourages preservation and revitalization of cultural and spiritual heritage of mountainous population, creation of feeling of respect toward traditional spiritual and moral values, protection of tangible and intangible culture of mountainous population, participate in the transfer of the national traditional knowledge to the new generation. Within these objectives Association performs the following tasks: - helps government and local authorities in decision-making in the manner prescribed by law, represents and defends its rights and legitimate interests, as well as other citizens in government, local authorities and public associations, covers the activities of the Association in the media. - establishes effective and useful contacts on Scientific, research, training and agitation works with Tajik National Park "Pamir Mountains", reserve Zorkul and other protected areas of Pamirs, with state and non- state institutions in the region and beyond it, nature-oriented organizations, and public organizations involved in the protection of biodiversity, bio culture of environment and traditional culture of the people and other organizations, agencies which deal with issues of nature protection, culture, history, social and economic life of Pamirs, participates in achievement of joint projects with them, lighting historical, economic and cultural role of Pamirs in the Silk Road.

Coopération

The organization works with four pilot remote areas. With the aim of establishing more effective cooperation with cultural practices, traditional knowledge holders, with communities living in remote places, it created folk wildlife clubs in GBAO villages, namely, in the Barvoz village of Roshtkala, Siponj of Rushan, Zong of Ishkashim and Rangkul of Murgab districts. There is no analogue of such a club in the republic yet. The clubs were created on the basis of the collection of voluntary members from among local experts in traditional knowledge. The main goal of the clubs is to revive, preserve and spread the biocultural heritage, traditional knowledge of the environment, and promote the preservation of the heritage of intangible culture. A unique wildlife festival in the Pamirs was organized by the clubs' strength, the first environmental education and cultural event dedicated to the protection of wildlife, which in Tajikistan was for the first time. Local people thanks to the festival had the opportunity to relax, enjoy songs, dance, talk about the beauty of nature, about music, literature, traditions, remember the ancestors and bless God for the rich nature. Within the framework of the project, visitors to the festival were offered free of charge several types of local traditional hunting dishes. The festival became a good occasion for the revival and transfer of hunting song and dance folklore. Revived and performed a huge number of songs, dances, dances, which were shown to the huge public of the festival. The folk singers who participated in the revival of these folk works have an idea to create a folklore group that performs exclusively hunting songs and dances. Within the framework of the project, about 25 songs and dances, dances related to hunting and hunting in the Pamirs were collected, processed, revived and performed for centuries among the Pamir peoples. In the collected folklore, a tone is sounded for protecting the environment, promoting people's careful attitude to living nature and using its resources. Through the festival, there were revived sets of folk games related to the attitude to nature. During the preparation for the festival it was found out that the ethnic Tajiks of the Pamirs have preserved a huge number of imitative, creative, imitative, story-role, mobile children's games coming from historical traditions. Many of these games are related to hunting, which bring up in children respect for the environment, animals, their protection and safety. Public Association "Kuhhoi Pomir" intends to further work on the collection, documentation and video filming of these games. All these works were conducted with the communities and the organization was able to attract a huge number of local residents to its high-quality execution.