KABUL, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA) said on Monday it has set free more than 15,000 pieces of precious birds and animals to the nature over the past year.

"Around 15,313 birds and animals were confiscated from traffickers and released back into the wild," the local media outlet Tolonews quoted Hamed Safi, the head of the natural heritage conservation department of NEPA, as saying.

The official told the private media outlet that NEPA had launched a nationwide campaign to prevent hunting of birds and animals in efforts to protect the environment.

The mountainous Afghanistan is home to rare and precious birds and animals such as falcon, vulture, snow leopard, bear, a variety of antelopes and wild goats.

To protect the nature, the Afghan interim government has banned hunting birds, wild animals, fishing in rivers and cutting trees in forests. Enditem

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