Ariana: At least 149 species of animal are in danger of disappearing from Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Saturday. According to the officials, war, climate change, animal-trafficking, and illegal hunting are the main cause of loss of wildlife in the country. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: Four rare wild goats were hunted by hunters in Salang district of Parwan province, local officials confirmed. Parwan province has been the home for many wild and rare goats, but recently they have been in danger of hunters. Click here to read more (external link).
Phys.org: Forty years of unrest in Afghanistan left wildlife ecologists uncertain whether one of the region’s rare sub-species of red deer, the Bactrian deer (Cervus elaphus bactrianus), had survived in the country. But recently, for the first time since the 1970s, a survey team led by Wildlife Conservation Society ecologist Zulmai Moheb, with colleagues in Afghanistan,