Iraqi Marshlands named as UNESCO World Heritage Site!
UNESCO has named Iraqi marshlands as a world heritage site! The area named “is made up of seven sites: three...
Save the Tigris and Marshes
Save the Tigris and Marshes is a civil society campaign advocating for the protection of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin and the Mesopotamian Marshes. Over time, the initiative has grown into an international advocacy platform working on water justice, ecological protection, and the democratic governance of water resources across Iraq and the wider Mesopotamian region. Today, the campaign continues its work through the Save the Tigris Foundation, based in the Netherlands.
Website: https://savethetigris.org
London hosts academic conference on Iraq’s water resources
Concern mounts about the future of Iraq’s water resources, and in an important development Iraqi President Fouad Masoum warned about...
Mega water projects and the environmental crisis in the Iraqi Marshes: a publication by A Sud
Beyond the rhetoric of “waves” as used by the media in their narrative of migration flows to Europe lies a...
International Civil Society Urges WHC Member States to Vote YES for Iraqi Marshes
Istanbul, 10 July 2016 Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign At the conclusion of this year’s annual...
Iraqi youth in action to protect the Tigris River
Protecting the Tigris River of Iraq: this will be the main objective for a new group of committed youth activists...
Save the Tigris Campaign workshop in Erbil upcoming!
From June 26-27, the Save the Tigris Campaign will conduct a training for Iraqi youth environmental activists in Erbil. A...
Will Iraq’s wetlands join World Heritage List?
Omar Sattar, Published by Al-Monitor, June 17 2016 BAGHDAD — The archaeological sites of Ur, Eridu and Uruk as well as the Iraqi...
The negative impact of large dams: a seminar in Erbil
Seminar at the University of Salah Aldin – Erbil Al-Messala Organization, Erbil – June 2016 In cooperation with the University...
Call for Action to Protect the Marshlands of Mesopotamia!
Statement by the Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign – June 9, 2016 Prior to the 40th session...
Al-Aimmah Bridge on the Tigris River: Hope for Baghdad and its people
The Iraqi Social Forum and the Save the Tigris Campaign participated in the “ I Have Hope”festival on the Al-Aimmah...
Suspension of Ilisu Dam project demanded at Tigris River Valley symposium in Turkey
Batman, Turkey, May 2016 The ancient town of Hasankeyf in Turkey has for years been struggling against the destructive Ilisu...
The impact of a possible Mosul Dam failure
A technical report has been released by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission’s in-house science service, on a possible...