Portrait of a Afghan Tajik man, Wakhan corridor, Ishkashim, on the Afghanistan and Tajikistan border, Central Asia, Asia

Afghanistan from the The Khyber Pass near Peshawar, Pakistan

Pakistani soldier in traditional uniform of Kyber Rifles at Khyber Pass border with Afghanistan near Peshawar, Pakistan

Afghan market in Ishkashim, on the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia

Border post, Wakhan corridor on the border with Afghanistan, Pamir region, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia

The leader of a band of Kuchi nomads, Hamid, entertains a wildlife survey team and discusses wildlife in the region with biology student Zalmai Moheb, in the range lands near the Turkmenistan border, Kushk-i Kuhna district, Herat Province, Afghanistan

Conservation biologist George Schaller asks local shepherds and policemen about leopards and cheetah, at a border post on the border with Iran, in Gulran District, in the northwest part of Herat Province. Dr. Schaller was making a wildlife survey to see what remained of biodiversity in the Northwest corner of Afghanistan, and interviewed soldiers, shepherds and other Afghans who move through the region to find out what wildlife they had seen.

A border policeman looks out form a ridge, at a post on the Hari Rud River, with Iran just on the other side, in Gulran District, in the northwest part of Herat Province.

Young Baluch men on a motorbike ride on a dirt road through a desert landscape brushed with green after spring rains, in the Gulran district near the Iran and Turkmenistan border

A Kuchi man fingers prayer beads in a nomad camp near the Turkmenistan border in, Kushk-i Kuhna district, Herat Province, Afghanistan

Tajik girls wear full length Iranian style veils, called "abbaya" as they walk to school through the bazaar of Turghondi, a town on the border with Turkmenistan, in the northern part of Herat Province.

Members of a wildlife survey team, student Zalmai Moheb and team leader George Schaller, discuss wildlife with Kuchi nomads while policeman accompanying the team look on, in the range lands near the Turkmenistan border, Kushk-i Kuhna district, Herat Province, Afghanistan

A Herati man asks for directions from a border policeman near the Turkmenistan border in, Kushk-i Kuhna district, Herat Province, Afghanistan

A Tajik man repairs and shines shoes in the bazaar of Turghondi, a town on the border with Turkmenistan, in the northern part of Herat Province.