Peter Smallwood,^* Chris Shank,^** Alex Dehgan,^*** Peter Zahler<sup>****


*</sup>Peter Smallwood (http://biology.richmond.edu/faculty/psmallwo), an associate professor of biology at the University of Richmond, served as director of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009.
^**Chris Shank first worked on conservation and protected-area development in Afghanistan in the 1970s and has worked there with WCS since 2006.
^***Alex Dehgan, science and technology adviser to the administrator of the US Agency for International Development, was the WCS Afghanistan country director from 2006 to 2007.
^****Peter Zahler, WCS's Asia program deputy director, designs and supervises conservation projects in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, China, Russia, and Mongolia. The views in this article are the authors' alone and do not represent the official views of the US Agency for International Development.