Climate Change Effects on Bird’s population in Afghanistan

Abstract

Climate change is one of the most serious environmental problem of the centuries which has affected all ecological processes and life on the earth. Birds play important role in ecologial stability and socio econimic development of socities. Climate change and overexpliotation are two major chalanges against conservation of birds diversity in the world specially in Afghanistan. Given the issues, this online survey based research was undertaken during 2021 to assess the level of knowledge about climate change among people, its possible impacts on bird’s population and conservation strategies to cope with climate change in Afghanistan. Results of the study revealed that 95.1% of the respondents were aware about climate change. Source of information about climate change was also different among respondents as 50.6% had their own experience while 34.6% get information from internet and radio and telvosion was source of information for 6.2% of respondents. 71.6% of respondets know about different impacts of climate change. Climate change negitavely affected bird’s population as 91.4/% of people said that bird’s population had drastically decreased, on the other hand 86.4% of people claim that they miss many birds species during last two decades. Based on these findings it is suggested that habitat restoration is the most accepted conservation policy in Afghanistan context.