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Afghanistan has long been known for diverse wildlife. Many of the larger mammals in the country are categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as globally threatened. These include the snow leopard , Marco Polo sheep , Siberian musk deer , markhor , urial , and the Asiatic black bear .
Wakhan National Park is a national park in northeastern Afghanistan.Established in 2014, the park encompasses the entire Wakhan District of Badakhshan Province, extending along the Wakhan Corridor between the Pamir Mountains and the Hindu Kush, bordering the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region of Tajikistan to the north, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan to the south, and the ...
The East Afghan montane conifer forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0506) covers a series of unconnected conifer forests along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, at elevations of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) to 3,400 metres (11,200 ft) above sea level.
Band-e Amir National Park (Dari: پارک ملی بند امیر; Pashto: د امیر بند ملي پارک) is located in the central Bamyan Province of Afghanistan.It was established on 22 May 2009 as Afghanistan's first national park to promote and protect the natural beauty of a series of intensely blue lakes created by natural dams high in the Hindu Kush. [2]
This is a list of protected areas of Afghanistan. [1] Ab-i-Estada Nature Reserve, Ghazni Province; Ajar Valley Nature Reserve, Bamyan Province; Bamiyan National Heritage Park, Bamyan Province; Bamiyan Plateau Protected Landscape, Bamyan Province; Band-e Amir National Park, Bamyan Province; Darqad (Takhar) Wildlife Reserve, Takhar Province
Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster called on President Biden to “reverse course” in the aftermath of Thursday’s bombings in Kabul, urging him to scrap his deadline for ...
Other wild creatures of Afghanistan include Marco Polo sheep, urials, ibex, bears, wolves, foxes, hyenas, jackals, and mongooses. Wild pig, hedgehogs, wenches, rabbits, mouse rabbits, bats, and different rodents additionally happen. In excess of 380 flying creature species are found in Afghanistan, with in excess of 200 reproducing there.
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