Detection of the vegetation change cover using landsat TM5 in the Burabay State National Natural Park, Kazakhstan

Abstract

The SNNP «Burabay» is the famous touristic place in Kazakhstan, where the frequent climate change and anthropogenic activities has a significant impact in land cover change. Especially, there is significant impact on vegetation lost and these changes have a detrimental impact on biodiversity, as SNPP is defined as a home for 305 animal species and 800 flora species (https: // kazakhstan.orexca.com/ national park burabay.shtml). The tourism industry has become the dominant contributor to Burabay»s development, so many vegetated areas, green spaces are reducing in order to build hotels, restaurants and different types of entertainment centres. Thus, the SNNP « Burabay» is under the control of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (1UCN) in the category 2 which aims: «to protect biodiversity along with its underlying ecological structure and supporting environmental processes, and to promote education and recreation)) (1UCN, 2017 https://www.iucn.org/).