Country: Kazakhstan

Organization:

Website: http://ihatecubicle.blogspot.com/2008/01/geo-tourism-in-kazakhstan.html

Project Description:

Hunting with golden eagles in Kazakhstan, is ancient and deeply esteemed tradition, and hunters-berkutchi are one of the most esteemed persons in a society.
The first world falconry festival took place on July14-15, 2007 in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom (http://www.falconryfestival.com/). Festival gathered teams from 33 countries, including USA, France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Brazil, China, South Korea, Turkmenistan, England and others. Kazakhstan team was recognized the best one.
Now I would like to present my friend's falconry estate at Central Kazakhstan, that offers falcons, hawks and golden eagles to hunt wolf, fox, hare, black-cocks, ducks, partridges and pigeons. Since 1995 they hold international competitions “Salburn” - hunting with birds and Kazakh “tazy”- wolfhound.

For more details visit their website at http://www.pmicro.kz/~falcon/falcon_e/
or just give them a call:
Tileukabyl Esembekuly: 7 7212 45-41-02 , 7 300 244 65 69, tleu.e@rambler.ru
Karlygash Makataeva: 7 7272 71-26-17, 7 300 755 20 86, kmakataeva@yahoo.com

sapenov's Story:
The nominee comes from a family of "berkutchi" - people who use falcons, golden eagles and hawks for hunting. They also use a rare kind of wolfhound or "borzoi" to hunt, while riding a horse. Tileukabyl Esembekuly lives in steppes with his family and closest civilization is 200-300 kilometers away. They keep ancient Kazakh traditions and, in my opinion, your help will sustain heritage, culture and aesthetics of this place.