Aziz Sabouri was 10 when he started herding cattle along the shores of the Hamoun Lakes by the Afghan border in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
Now 80, his face craggy with deep lines, Sabouri stands in the middle of a vast tract of bone-dry land, taut with cracks and dotted with derelict boats -- the oases of wetlands he dreams of from his youth all but vanished.
