Nimatullah Ahmadi is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan.
As one of the world’s most isolated communities, Wakhan in northeastern Afghanistan is facing unprecedented hardships because of disease, a harsh winter, grinding poverty, and food shortages.
Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern province of Badakhshan, home to a plethora of rare and nearly extinct animals, is seeing an increase in illegal bird hunting despite a ban on such practices to preserve the region’s rich biodiversity.
