The Wildlife Enthusiast's Guide to Afghanistan

Take a journey through Afghanistan, one of the most climatically polarized countries on the planet and explore its 5 climate regions. Discover the north of the country, a winter-wonderland home to snow leopards, brown bears and lynx; the east, which features some of the most interesting reptiles and the country's only species of primate; the Central Highlands, home to many of the country's bat species, along with foxes and wolves; the Northern plains where things start to heat up and reptiles really take the show; and the Southern Plateau, which features its own set of breathtaking reptiles and a set of lakes with some of the country's most beloved birds.

0:00 Snow Leopards
0:36 Afghanistan's 5 Climate Regions
1:28 Hindu Kush
3:22 Eastern Highlands
5:52 Central Highlands
7:53 Northern Plains
9:38 Southern Plateau

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Creative Commons Attribution
Band-e-Amir - Afghanistan Matters/Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
Central Asian cobra - Omid Mozaffari/CalPhotos
Dwarf Sand Boa - Benny Trapp/Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0
Delaram, Helmand province Cory Smith/AfghanistanMatters/Flickr CC BY 2.0

Aich et al. & MDPI: Climate Change in Afghanistan Deduced from Reanalysis and Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)—South Asia Simulations
https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/5/2/38
Nabizada et al. & MDPI: Spatial and Temporal Assessment of Remotely Sensed Land Surface Temperature Variability in Afghanistan during 2000–2021
https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/10/7/111
Najmuddin et al. & MDPI: Valuation of Land-Use/Land-Cover-Based Ecosystem Services in Afghanistan—An Assessment of the Past and Future
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/11/1906

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Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.

Biodiversity profile of Afghanistan
https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstr....eam/handle/20.500.11
Encyclopedia Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/pla....ce/Afghanistan/Plant
Afghanistan Online
https://www.afghan-web.com/
Endemic Species
https://lntreasures.com/afghanl.html
Mammal species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....List_of_mammals_of_A
Bird species and Important Bird Areas
http://datazone.birdlife.org/country/afghanistan
Reptile species
https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?location=Afghanistan&submit=Search
Amphibian species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Category:Amphibians_
Afghanistan Invertebrates
http://afghan-arabiawild.com/A....fghanistan%20Inverte
Afghanistan invertebrates & other species
https://www.inaturalist.org/
Encyclopaedia of Life
https://eol.org/
IUCN Red List
https://www.iucnredlist.org/
Maps of land use in Afghanistan
https://www.researchgate.net/f....igure/Map-of-land-us
Maps of agricultural land in Afghanistan
https://www.researchgate.net/f....igure/Watersheds-Agr
Protected Areas in Afghanistan
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Li....st_of_protected_area
Wakhan Corridor
https://caravanistan.com/afgha....nistan/wakhan-corrid
Snow Leopards in the Hindu Kush
https://education.nationalgeog....raphic.org/resource/
Cedrus deodara
https://www.treesandshrubsonli....ne.org/articles/cedr
Wolf predation on wild boar (in Spain)
https://doi.org/10.2981/0909-6....396(2008)14[44:WBSSM
Toad-headed Agama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctn6byl2weI

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