Bijan Omrani
Rhinos of War
The Snow Leopard Project and Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
By Alex Dehgan
Public Affairs 278pp £20.99 order from our bookshop
It is well known how forty years of war have devastated the historical treasures of Afghanistan. The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas and the Kabul Museum in the final stages of Taliban rule sent shock waves around the world and photographs of ruined buildings and monuments are a constant backdrop to the endless pessimistic headlines. While we should lament these losses of material culture, there has been little coverage of another sort of damage caused by war: the decimation of Afghanistan’s wildlife.
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