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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 ...
Ajar Valley Nature Reserve is a protected area in Afghanistan, located in Bamyan Province. It was designated a nature reserve in the early 20th century after the Afghan royal family had used the area for hunting. It is considered by the IUCN to be one of the most important natural areas of Afghanistan and was proposed for a national park in ...
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
With the new film Bread and Roses streaming now on Apple TV+, Lawrence, 34, and Yousafzai, 27, turned the camera over to Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani to collect footage of women Mani knew in ...
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 ]
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]
The Qosh Tepa Canal (Pashto: د قوشتپې کنال; Persian: کانال قوش تپه; Uzbek: Qoʻshtepa kanali) is a canal being built in northern Afghanistan to divert water from the Amu Darya. [1]