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MONTH: March 2007

Poaching in Afghanistan

 

Poaching, never well-controlled in Afghanistan, appears to be more blatant than ever, freelance correspondent Jeff Hodson reported for the Seattle Times in mid-January 2007.

"The skins of wolves and wild cats hang in fur shops in Kabul," Hodson wrote, "along with rabbit-skin rugs and full-length fox coats, despite a nationwide ban on hunting and international laws prohibiting their trade. Foreign soldiers and aid workers are the main buyers, according to conservationists."

Wildlife Conservation Society director of Afghanistan programs Alex Deghan told Hodson that "he knows of one aid worker who had a comforter made from two or three snow-leopard skins."