Fifth national report to the United Nation’s convention on biological diversity / submitted by the National Environmental Protection Agency.

Cover title.
“31 March 2014”.
“Islamic Republic of Afghanistan”—at head of title.
“تقویت تاب آوری محیط زیستی = building environmental resilience”.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Foreword—Executive summary—1. An update on biodiversity status, trends, and threats, and implications for human well being—2. The national biodiversity strategy and action plan, its implementation, and the mainstreaming of biodiversity.

Summary: “Main pressures on the environment and the drivers of change to biodiversity (direct and indirect) : The main threats to Afghanistan’s biodiversity are conversion of land for agriculture and housing, illegal hunting, deforestation, over-grazing, shrub collection, dryland farming, water diversion, and climate change. These threats have become more serious during the last three decades. For instance, deforestation continues today and it has been estimated that firewood harvest for the Kabul market alone results in the destruction of 10,000 ha of oak forest and 15,000 ha of juniper forest each year in Paktia and Khost Provinces…”—(page summary).

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