The national parks are the public lands or bodies of water of special environmental, historical and other importance, which bear the status of governmental protection.
As a country located in the Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas, Azerbaijan has a rich flora and fauna and widest biodiversity among the European states and enormous natural resources.
Ag-Gol national park is designed to protect the marshy ecological systems, as the nesting and wintering places of migratory and waterbirds.
Animals as the roe deer, bear, wild boar, lynx, fox, rabbit, squirrel, wolf, etc.
Types and phytomass of flora is too poor here, plants are changed respective of the water and saltiness regime of area.
In dry area gazelle, jackal, fox, rabbit, badger, in Caspian waters seal and various fishes, birds such as silver gull, wheezing swan, grey and red-headed black, white-eyed black ducks, big white bittern, sandpiper, bald-coot, marsh belibagli, sea bozcha and other migrant birds have inhabited here.
The Shahdag National Park is located in northern Azerbaijan, on the border with Russia and Georgia at the Greater Caucasus Mountains.
Shahdag National Park will help address ecological issues and build a tourist infrastructure in the Caucasus for visitors [1].
The predecessor of Göygöl National Park during Soviet times was the "Goy Gol State Reserve" that was established in 1925.
Some characteristic species are black kite, eastern imperial eagle, otter, reed cat, lynx, chamois, Caspian red deer and brown bear.
In the coastal waters belonging to the national park, stellate sturgeon, brown trout, eel, pikeperch and Caspian kutum can be found.