Luristan

For example, over the past five years, pet traders in Iran have been dipping into rivers in the Zagros Mountains to catch the Luristan newt, also known as the Kaiser’s spotted newt, which sells online for $150.

Researchers hope the study will inform conservation work for endangered species such as this Luristan newt from Iran.

Few people fretted about the fate of the Singapore freshwater crab, Ethiopia's liben lark, the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat or the Luristan newt, found in only in the Zagros mountains in Iran, he warned.

This Gurab plain, one of very many lying high up among these Luristan mountains, is green and pretty now—a sea of bulbs and grass, but is brown and dusty from early in June onwards.

I saw much of what is worth seeing in Tihran, including the Shah and several of the Persian statesmen, and left the Legation with every help that could be given for a long and difficult journey into the mountains of Luristan.