Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 .
In Afghanistan, there are more than 3,000 plant species, including many assortments of trees, bushes, vines, blossoms, and growths. Especially numerous are therapeutic plants such as wormwood, and asafetida; products of the soil trees are found in numerous territories. [ 1 ]
Today, some buildings from the Timurid period remain (the Green Mosque pictured), as well as ruins from the previous periods. [9] Band-E-Amir: Bamyan: 2004 vii, viii, ix, x (natural) Band-E-Amir is a series of mountain lakes created by natural dams. The waters are pure blue and the nature is undisturbed.
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]
Nearly four months since the Taliban seized power and the United States pulled its troops from Afghanistan, the country is facing a critical food shortage that some aid groups say could kill a ...
U.S. officials say they are racing to evacuate as many people from Afghanistan as possible before the end of the month, when America's 20-year military presence in the country is scheduled to end.
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