Marbled polecat Vormela peregusna in Kyzylkum desert (Kazakhstan)

The article provides data on 1 marbled polecat Vormela peregusna Guldenstaedt, 1770 visual encounter and 6 cases of its camera-trap registration. The marbled polecat detection rate index in Eastern and Northern Kyzylkum was 0.09. In two cases, marbled polecat was photographed together with red fox, marbled polecat Vormela peregusna was not aggressive to it. Marbled polecat is included in the Red Book of the Republic of Kazakhstan [2010] as a species, the range and number of which are decreasing, and in the Red Book of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in the category Vu - Vulnerable species. In the regions of our research, the status of the marbled polecat populations does not cause concern due to the lack of human economic activity and the cessation of fur hunting.