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| Barzan Area (E8) | |
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Description of the Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) Barzan (E8). This area of mountains and valleys is covered in oak woodland. It is, and has traditionally been protected by the Barzan tribe. This area has often been proposed as a National Park (it is one of the few places in Kurdistan, northern Iraq, where it is relatively easy to see Wild Goats thanks to a long-standing hunting prohibition from the Barzan tribe). Data for Mammals, Reptiles, and other Fauna were collected from 2007 through 2010, with some additional work focused on Wild Goats in 2011. In 2012, a local from Barzan successfully photographed a Eurasian lynx (_Lynx lynx_). The globally Endangered Persian leopard (_Panthera pardus saxicolor_) was also reported by locals who have seen and heard the animal in and around the Rezan River valley. |
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