Registan Desert

Registan Desert

The Registan Desert is an extremely arid plateau region located between Helmand and Kandahar provinces in southwestern Afghanistan. It is a sandy desert consisting of small, red sandhills about 50 to convert|100|ft|m high, sand covered planes, and open rocky and clay areas. It is sparsely populated by Baluchi and Pashtun nomads. The desert is gradually encroaching on surrounding agricultural areas. [http://forums.hypography.com/archive/t-10758.html Science Forums article, March 14, 2007]

A severe drought in 1998 caused the displacement of approximately 100,000 nomadic people from the Registan desert region. [ [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/nomp/2004/00000008/00000002/art00012?crawler=true Nomadic Peoples, Volume 8, Number 2, December 2004 , pp. 214-229(16)] ] Most of them are now living in temporary settlements between the Arghandab and Helmand Rivers and Registan. A large number are also being supported by the UN in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province. The UN is currently seeking strategies to return the nomads to their traditional livelihood of raising livestock in Registan.

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External links

* [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16442 NASA Image - August 20, 2000]
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sites/index.html?action=SitHTMDetails.asp&sid=8016&m=0 Registan Desert Bird Life Factsheet]


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