@Mike: I don't like this kind of development much, but why do you say it's built on gangsterism? Granted there are sure to be gangsters in real estate, but what do you know about Wang & Wanda?

The game involves some of the most incredibly-trained horses you will ever see. There can be any number of players - scores of payers - and it could never be played unless the horses, in leaping meles of a dozen or more in which riders sometimes fall off, were not trained to avoid stepping on anything on the ground.

In Afghanistan it is played mostly by the Uzbeks, in the north, where a famous chapandoz, or buzkashi player, is regarded by ordinary folk as virtually a legendary hero. This is a guy with enormous charisma and status, a cut above everybody else, and he'll get on his horse and ride 100 meters to buy a pack of cigarettes rather than walk. He is probably over 40 years old and may be over 50. Yet the saying there is, "Better a good horse rather than a good rider". His horse will probably be between 5 & 10 years old.
You watch these guys playing buzkashi and you begin to understand part of the reason that Central Asians have, time & time again, been able to conquer the settled populations south of the great swath of territory that occupies the center of Asia.
Incomparable.

A good thing, as simple concentration on the panda is primarily for nationalistic reasons and is also popular because they are considered cute, whereas environmental protection needs to include attention to more serious matters.

And, for that matter, on their suppliers as well.

Hope they prosecute the people who bought from these guys, too - might give the shopkeeper folks a slight reduction in sentence, if convicted (?!), to rat on their customers.