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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.
Exotic birds and wild animals continue to be smuggled out of the country. [38] In 2014 around 5,000 birds were smuggled out of Afghanistan, which included falcons , hawks and geese . [ 39 ] In 2006, Afghanistan and the Wildlife Conservation Society began a three-year project to protect wildlife and habitats in Band-e Amir National Park and ...
The species does not meet any of the criteria that would categorise it as risking extinction, but it is likely to do so in the future. VU: Vulnerable: The species is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild. EN: Endangered: The species is facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. CR: Critically endangered
An American woman went viral last summer when she desperately tried to get shelter animals out of Afghanistan as U.S. troops were evacuating. Charlotte Maxwell-Jones' determination helped 286 dogs ...
Of the species in Afghanistan, 46 species are globally threatened. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading ...
This is a list of reptiles of Afghanistan. There are 111 species of reptiles in Afghanistan. [1] Testudines. Testudinidae. Testudo. Testudo horsfieldii; Squamata
The U.S. military evacuated more than 1,000 Americans from Afghanistan on Tuesday but thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of vulnerable Afghans remain in peril as the U.S. approaches its ...
The current turmoil in Afghanistan resulted from the Biden administration's immense failure to execute the US exit, Eurasia Group founder and political scientist Ian Bremmer tells Yahoo Finance in ...