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A location in Zabul Province of Afghanistan. Felling has been made illegal all over Afghanistan. [12] [13] [14] According to NEPA, only about 1.5% of the country is forested. [15] Others have put the figure at 2.1% (or 1,350,000 ha). [16] Some steps have been taken in recent years to plant trees in the urban areas of the country.
[12] The Caspian tiger used to occur along the upper reaches of Hari-Rud near Herat to the jungles in the lower reaches of the river until the early 1970s. [13] Uncertain is the historical presence of the Asiatic lion in the country, as locality records are not known. [11] It is thought to have been present in southwestern and southern ...
Afghanistan accepted the convention on March 20, 1979, making its sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] As of 2022, there are two World Heritage Sites in Afghanistan, and a further four on the tentative list. [3] The first site listed was the Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam, in 2002.
World Heritage Sites in Afghanistan (3 P) Z. Zoos in Afghanistan (1 P) Pages in category "Nature conservation in Afghanistan" This category contains only the ...
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]
In 2023, Afghanistan is estimated to have emitted 11 million tonnes of CO2, [9] or 44 million tonnes of greenhouse gas [10] which would be about one tonne per person. For rough comparison with other countries : India over two tonnes per person, [ 11 ] China and Germany around 10, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] USA and Russia around 20.
The first phase of the project was completed in October 2023, [4] [5] with the second phase immediately commencing,by December 2024 the second phase is eighty one percent complete. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Independent experts and engineers have expressed skepticism and concern about the project, stating that the Afghan government does not possess the ...
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 ...