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Title
Wildlife conservation… in Afghanistan?
Author(s)
Smallwood, P.;Shank, C.;Dehgan, A.;Zahler, P.
Published
2011
Publisher
BioScience
Abstract
The reaction we get whenever we speak about our conservation work in Afghanistan is the same: “Wildlife conservation in Afghanistan?” At first, the idea strikes people as strange, perhaps even preposterous. The common perception of Afghanistan is that of a depauperate landscape, largely devoid of wildlife worth saving. And given the many challenges facing Afghanistan, isn't conservation a distraction from the main mission of stabilizing the country, anyway?

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