News
Field notes and updates
Sightings, field work and announcements from the ClimateKRD team and the people who share their records with us.
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Kurdistan Mountains: Why we need to protect them
Home to some towering mountains, the Kurdistan Region took its case to an international arena at the UN COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan in November
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Rare and Threatened: Wildlife on Kurdistan’s Bamo Mountains
Researchers identified several threats to the wildlife in the region, including forest fires, landmines, poaching, and animal trafficking. These factors, they warn, could have led to a significant decline in the population size and distribution of many wild mammalian species, with some possibly already extinct.