| ISBN |
9781610396950 (hardback) |
| Name |
Dehgan, Alex author. |
| Title |
The snow leopard project : and other adventures in warzone conservation / Alex Dehgan. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Published |
New York : PublicAffairs, 2019. |
| ©2019 |
| Description |
vii, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Bird-watching with the Taliban -- The snow leopard start-up -- Afghanistan's biological silk road -- The ordinary extraordinary life in Kabul -- The forgotten peoples on the roof of the world -- The Buddhas of Band-e-Amir -- Vampires in the land of light -- The search for the last Afghan cheetah -- Adventures in conservation diplomacy -- Back in the CCCP -- The snow leopard comforter -- Epilogue: the snow leopard project. |
| Summary |
Post-war Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary biologist Alex Deghan came to Afghanistan and created a startup, Conservation X Labs, to save Afghanistan's unique and extraordinary wildlife and natural landscape after decades of war. His workplace was so remote that roads themselves would disappear, and travel was by foot, yak, or mule, following ancient pathways for weeks into the mountain kingdoms and desolate landscapes. Conservation, it turned out, provided a common bond between Alex's team and the people of Afghanistan, where his international team worked unarmed in some of the most dangerous places in the country. They successfully built the country's first national park, completed the first wildlife survey in thirty years, and worked to stop the poaching of the country's iconic endangered animals, including the elusive snow leopard. In doing so, they restored a part of Afghan identity that is ineffably tied to the land itself. For a people who had spent decades as refugees or subject to the horrors and desolation of war, the quest to restore Afghanistan's wildlife became the restoration of Afghanistan's very culture and deep history. |
| Subjects |
Wildlife recovery -- Afghanistan |
| Snow leopard -- Conservation -- Afghanistan |
| Wildlife conservation -- Afghanistan |
| National parks and reserves -- Afghanistan |
| War -- Environmental aspects -- Afghanistan |
| Nature -- Effect of human beings on |
| Afghan War, 2001- |
| Snow leopard -- Environmental aspects -- Afghanistan |
| Wildlife conservation -- Effect of human beings on -- Afghanistan |
| Wildlife recovery -- Conservation -- Afghanistan |
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