Over in neighboring Tajikistan, there is more good news. Kern says he has secured all of the newly available permits for Afghan urial and has already lined up hunters. The hunts go for $16,900 and will take place November 1, 2006 through February 28, 2007. There are two races of Afghan urial: the cycloceros found in Turkmenistan and most of Afghanistan; and the bocharensis, or Bukharan urial, found in southeastern Uzbekistan, southern Tajikistan and northern Badakhshan in Afghanistan.
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