UNESCO is one of a number of international organizations that have singed up to help in its rehabilitation.
Iraq’s marshes and shallow lakes are located at the meeting point of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where they form the Shatt al-Arab water estuary. Located at the intersection is a tree reputed to be the meeting place of Adam and Eve after they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden.
The Marshland Revitalization Committee in the Basra Governorate Council recently held a conference to prepare a strategy for rehabilitating the marshlands in Basra, one of the cities where these marshes are located.
Hamid al-Zalimi, head of the preparation committee for the conference, said, “The goal behind holding the conference is to discus the 2008 fiscal budget by working on three cores: the service, economic and social cores for the marshlands in Basra.”
Zalimi added saying, “An economic review was held to prepare a clear strategy for the coming three years that tackles ways to benefit from the marshes economically by developing the agricultural methods, fish and animal breeding, as well as the building of dairy and reed plants.”
There are presently 30 projects costing more than IQD 75 billion to develop the area’s 150 villages and a population exceeding 250,000.
Source: Noozz
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