Tulipa ferganica

The primary threats to this species are livestock overgrazing and climate change. Damage from trampling, grazing, and soil erosion is common in some areas where this species grows as these are used as pastureland (Davletkeldiev 2006, Tojibaev and Beshko 2015). Populations of livestock are increasing across the range of this species and so it is predicted this threat will increase heading into the future. A further threat comes from climate change which will likely change the weather patterns across the middle mountain areas that this species occurs in. Modelling suggests this species will lose large tracts of suitable habitat due to the impacts of climate change and subpopulations may be forced to shift to higher altitudes (Wilson et al. 2021). Expansion of infrastructure and agricultural land also poses a threat to this species as some subpopulations occur in foothills near to the fertile areas of the Fergana Valley albeit this affects only a very small proportion of the population. Finally, opportunistic collection of this species does occur, but currently on such a small scale that this is not impacted subpopulation sizes.