The Sulaimani Botanic Garden – a new initiative for conservation

The Sulaimani Botanic Garden – a new initiative for conservation

The Sulaimani Botanic Garden – a new initiative for
conservation and restoration in Iraq
Tony Miller - Centre for Middle Eastern Plants
Saman Abdulrahman - Sulaimani Botanic Garden
Iraqi
Kurdistan
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Site of Sulaimani Botanic
Garden:
View SW towards the city
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Site of Sulaimani Botanic Garden:
View east towards the Azmar mountains
Qara Dagh
Jarmo – neolithic
village; c.8,000 BC
Claudius James Rich (1787 – 1821):
British business agent, traveller and
antiquarian scholar
“Trees don’t lie”?
Kurdish Garden
Subalpine zone
Upper woodland and cliffs
Piramagroon (Mirgapan)
Lower Quercus woodland
Riverine woodland and orchards
Lower oak woodlands and
grasslands (meadows)
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Serratula grandifolia
In Quercus aegilops woodland
Figure 20 – Dendrogram created by Community Analysis of Vegetation at Releve Points.PC-ORD
multivariate analysis software (McCune and Mefford, 2011)
Serratula grandifolia
Gentiana olivieri
Alcea kurdica
Riverine woodland
and orchards
Rosa canina
Paliurus spina-christi
Planting the woodland