Nature Iraq, key biodiversity survey of Kurdistan
Korsh Ararat,
Ibrahem M. Abid,
Saman Abdul Rahman
KBA-Kurdistan
This document presents field observations from the Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) Survey conducted in January and February 2008 & May and June 2008, in the three northern governorates of Iraq: Sulaimani, Erbil and Duhok. This survey is a joint effort of Nature Iraq (NI), the Iraqi Ministry of Environment (MoE), and other partners including the Kurdish Ministry of Environment (KMoE), the Environmental Police, a division of the Pesh Merga, as well as the University of Sulaimani (UofS).The winter and summer 2008 survey represent the third and fourth seasonal surveys conducted in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq since the start of the project in February 2007. The field effort focused on the following surveys: bird, fish, botany, water quality physical parameters, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthic macro invertebrates. This site review provides the basic findings of the species surveys (birds, fish, and botany) at each site to assist in the determination of whether the site meets KBA criteria.
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