Iraq is home to a significant diversity of reptiles and amphibians who make their homes in habitats ranging from the mountains to the deserts to the wetlands, but this diversity remains largely unexamined and unaccounted for.  Since the 1959 publication of KT Khalaf’sReptiles of Iraq with Some Notes on the Amphibians, no major work has been done to document these species.

The determination of a new range abundance of the Critically Endangered Kurdistan Newt during Nature Iraq Key Biodiversity Area field surveys in Sulaimani has opened many links between Nature Iraq and