A fisherman on Iraq's receding marshes that straddle the border with Iran — Asaad NIAZI Plans to drill for oil in the protected Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq have galvanised villagers and ...
Some 14,000 buffaloes have perished in southern Iraq over the past four years of drought, which has hit the mythical Mesopotamian marshes listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, according to local ...
Iraq’s southern wetlands, known as the Mesopotamian marshes, once stretched nearly 120 miles across, connecting the cities of Nasiriya and Basra. But today this ecosystem — protected as a UNESCO World ...
This aerial view shows a man inspecting dead fish during a mass die-off at the Ibn Najm marsh — Qassem al-KAABI Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern ...
An expedition by Duke University wetlands expert Curtis Richardson to evaluate damage to Iraq's storied Mesopotamian Marshlands revealed an environmental disaster of vast proportions. However, he ...
Like his father, Iraqi buffalo herder Watheq Abbas grazes his animals in Iraq's southern wetlands, but with persistent drought shrinking marshland where they feed and decimating the herd, his ...
Iraq Probes Fish Die-off In Southern Marshes By AFP - Agence France Presse June 02, 2025, 4:36 am EDT Share ...