Afghanistan: Parks and Restoration

Nov 14, 2019 | Ingrid Gonçalves, University of Chicago Magazine
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Leopards, tigers, and bears were just the beginning. In 2006 conservationist Alex Dehgan, SM’03, PhD’03, ventured by horse, donkey, and yak to some of Afghanistan’s most remote landscapes in search of elusive war zone wildlife. Dehgan and his team tracked ecologically crucial keystone species through grasslands, valleys, and mountains rarely glimpsed in American media coverage of the former Soviet-controlled country, the scene of nearly nonstop conflict since 1978. Their goal was to figure out how to protect the surviving fauna.