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The wildlife of Iraq includes its flora and fauna [1] and their natural habitats. Iraq has multiple biomes from mountainous region in the north to the wet marshlands along the Euphrates river. The western part of the country is mainly desert and some semi-arid regions. As of 2001, seven of Iraq's mammal species and 12 of its bird species were ...
The list of mammals of Iraq comprises seventy-eight mammal species, of which one is endangered, eleven are vulnerable, and three are near threatened. One of the species is probably locally extinct in the wild. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed on the IUCN Red List:
Occasionally, bears are killed during hunts for wild boar using dogs, and by poisoned baits and snares set illegally for red deer, roe deer, wolf, or lynx. [11] In 2018, a sleeping Syrian brown bear was killed by Iraqi forces at the Iraq-Syria border. [13]
Wild boars negatively impact other habitats through the destruction of the environment, or homes of wildlife. When wild boars invade new areas, they adapt to the new area by trampling and rooting, as well as displacing many saplings/nutrients. This causes a decrease in growing of many plants and trees. Water is also affected negatively by wild ...
Two men have been arrested after they were spotted close to the body of a dead wild boar. Officers spotted a Jeep parked on a track in the early hours of Tuesday morning near Yorkley in the Forest ...
In reaction to the 2009 flu pandemic, governments around the world had responded with countermeasures, some with extreme actions against pigs, which included the official extermination of all domestic pigs in Egypt and the culling of three wild boars at the Baghdad Zoo in Iraq.
The Hammar Marshes are located in the Dhi Qar and Basra Governorates.They are bordered in the north by the city of Al-Qurnah, in the northeast by the Euphrates River, in the southeast by the city of Basra, in the south by saline lakes and the Arabian Desert, in the west and northwest by the urban centres of Nasiriyah and Al-Chibayish.
In Hungary, 55% of their diet is composed of common voles and bank voles, and 41% is composed of wild boar carcasses. [85] Information on the diet of the golden jackal in northeastern Italy is scant, but it is known to prey on small roe deer and hares. [24]