As the early morning light breaks over the plain north of Kabul, bird hunter Jan...
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - As the early morning light breaks over the plain north of Kabul, bird hunter Jan Agha checks his snares as he has done for the past 30 years, hoping to catch a crane, using a tethered bird to lure others down to the nets.
“I have learned different types of hunting from my ancestors because they were hunters too,” said 49-year-old Jan Agha, a farmer in Parwan province. The war has left much of the environment near Kabul devastated with uncleared mines, pollution, uncontrolled building and general neglect. Only in the last few years has there been an effort to restore areas like the former royal hunting grounds at Kol-e-Hashmat Khan in the city’s southwest.
“I like this crane because it won’t be silent when the other big groups of cranes come, and it always forces them to come down. I like it because he is really a hunter bird.”
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