the currently available inventories statistics and other official documents do not yet follow the protected area categorization mentioned in the law and continue to use previously assigned traditional designations eg national park or historicalnatural park instead of state nature park this is probably caused by the fact that the area of muzkul nature preserve entirely located within the boundaries of the tajik national park is always counted separately which adds to the total other protected area categories occupy much smaller territories as the total area of five botanic gardens botanic stations and field nurseries and three touristrecreational zones amounts to ha ha and ha respectively the area of all state monuments of nature is so small that it is not even indicated in statistics