Ag-Gel

Ag-Gel National Park covers 17,924 hectares of shallow lake, wetland, and semi-arid steppe in the Mil-Karabakh Plain of western Azerbaijan. Established in 2003, the park protects Ag-Gel Lake—'White Lake' in Azerbaijani—and its surrounding marshes and mudflats, which form one of Azerbaijan's most important inland wetlands. The lake is fed by the Kura River system and provides critical habitat for migratory waterbirds on the Caucasian segment of the Western Eurasian flyway. The surrounding steppe and semi-desert support the rare Caucasian goitered gazelle and other threatened Caucasian fauna.