Illegal Trade of Wildlife Intolerable

Jun 28, 2016 | Massouda Qarizada
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Most parts of Afghanistan is occupied by the Hindokush Mountains and surrounded by the foothills covered with different types of plants and bushes like pines, pistachio, almond, oak etc. Environmental researchers have identified some 120 types of wildlife, a number of them carnivorous, tracked down by the hunters for their meat and skins, the generation of them subject to overthrow.  

Jaguar, existed in the western country’s hilltops are now disappeared after being hunted repeatedly and now color deer and white gooses are facing similar fate. White leopard, living in the Darqad valley’s swampland and Murghab region have now left their shelters after being bothered by the hunters, while snow leopard mostly living in the long valleys of Pamir and central parts of Hindokush fleeing the sites, because of being targeted by the hunters, and wolf and fox being appeared across the country’s hillsides have become elusive due to climate changes. According to some Kunduz citizens, in the recent years in Dasht-e-Abdan wide areas, hundreds of different foxes and black bears commuting across the forests between Laghman and Paghman, as well as brown bears touring in the mountainous sites of northern Badakhshan province have left their nests from the fear of the hunters.