Fauna of Afghanistan

The Caspian Tiger used to be sighted along the upper compasses of Hari-Rud close to Herat to the wildernesses in the lower spans of the stream until the mid 1970s.^[2] In March 2017, fringe monitors captured and appropriated six white lions close to Kandahar at the outskirt to Pakistan. The origin of the lions was unknown at first, but eventually Border Police Commander-General Ne'matullah Haidari confirmed that they were from Africa. In April 2017, four of the lions were taken to Kabul Zoo. The other two lions are still in Kandahar Province.^[3] Vegetation in Afghanistan is scanty yet diverse. Regular trees in the mountains are evergreens, oaks, poplars, wild hazelnuts, almonds, and pistachios. The fields of the north are to a great extent dry, treeless steppes, and those of the southwestern corner are about appalling deserts. Regular plants in the dry districts incorporate camel thistle, locoweed, prickly restharrow, mimosa, and wormwood, an assortment of sagebrush. The wild creatures of Afghanistan include over 100 warm blooded animal species, some of which are approaching extinction. The most grievously endangered are the goitered gazelle, panther, snow panther, markor goat, and Bactrian deer.^[4] Other wild creatures of Afghanistan include Marco Polo sheep, urials, ibex, bears, wolves, foxes, hyenas, jackals, and mongooses. Wild pig, hedgehogs, wenches, rabbits, mouse rabbits, bats, and different rodents additionally happen. In excess of 380 flying creature species are found in Afghanistan, with in excess of 200 reproducing there. Flamingo and other oceanic fowl breed in the lake regions south and east of Ghazni.

• CNN (21 July 2011) Elusive snow leopards discovered in remote corner of Afghanistan