Wildlife Of Iraq
The wildlife of Iraq includes its flora and fauna and their natural habitats. Iraq had lost all of its Asiatic Lion, Asiatic Cheetah and the now extinct Caspian Tigers by the earlier years of the twentieth century. Iraq is rich in wildlife and has many habitats from mountainous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq to the wet marshlands in the south. As of 2001, 7 of Iraq's mammal species and 12 of its bird species are endangered. Endangered species include the northern bald Ibis, Persian fallow deer, Sa'udi Arabian dorcas gazelle, and Asiatic cheetah. The Syrian wild ass has become extinct.
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