By Charlotte Bruneau and Mohammed Jalal
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, April 21 - Tying a camera trap around a tree trunk on Bamo mountain in Iraq's Kurdistan region, brothers Bahez and Nabaz Farooq Ali hope to capture footage of the Persian leopard, of which there are only about 1,000 left in the wild worldwide.
Soran Ahmed, a biologist at the University of Sulaimaniya who monitors the leopard, said some ten different live individuals had been recorded. But around ten have also been found dead in the last decade, he saw two of them shot by bullets, he said.When the Ali brothers came back to their village of Horen in 1991, after having been displaced by Saddam Hussein's violent campaign against the Kurds, they found it deserted and partly in ruins.
"The area is very large and we don't have the necessary resources to cover it", he said. "Hunters have better weapons, better cars than us."
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