Rod Williams / Male Indian Desert / Asiatic Wild Cat (Felis lybica ornata). Captive. Endemic to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan. UK, September.

Daniel Heuclin / Eastern saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus sochureki) studio shot, captive, from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran.

Jeff Wilson / Aerial view of Hindu Kush mountains, Afghanistan, South-central Asia, photographed whilst on location filming for for BBC Planet Earth series, 2005

Chadden Hunter / Camerman, Mark Smith, scouts Himalayan valleys over 2km deep in search of the elusive snow leopard, for the Mountains Episode of the BBC tv series Planet Earth, Himalayas, northern Pakistan (on the bo...

Chadden Hunter / Camerman, Mark Smith, scouts Himalayan valleys over 2km deep in search of the elusive snow leopard, for the Mountains Episode of the BBC tv series Planet Earth, Himalayas, northern Pakistan (on the bo...

Chadden Hunter / Cameraman, Mark Smith, waiting patiently for a sight of the elusive Snow leopard, with a range of binoculars, telescopes and cameras all pointed towards a cave the snow leopard is thought to use, for...

Chadden Hunter / Camerman, Mark Smith, carrying camera on tripod through snow, in search of the elusive snow leopard, for the Mountains Episode of the BBC tv series Planet Earth, Himalayas, northern Pakistan (on the b...

Rod Williams / Levantine viper (Afghan race) {Vipera lebatina obtusa} female, captive, from Afghanistan

ZSSD / Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) cub snarling, native to Iran and Afghanistan

Rod Williams / Male Himalayan Monal pheasant (Lophophorus impejanus) captive, from East Afghanistan to West China

Rod Williams / Male Corsac Fox (Vulpes corsac) in winter coat, Captive, found South East USSR and Afghanistan to Mongolia