Call for collaboration on the implementation of UNESCO recommendations for the Iraqi Marshes!
Statement by the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign September 22, 2016 Following the 3rd session of the Iraqi...
Environment
Some of the issues faced by water and environment in Iraq are: construction of large dams on the Tigris and its tributaries, the use of watercourses and water-related infrastructure as a weapon and tool for achieving political hegemony, threats to cultural heritage along the Tigris River, water pollution and unsustainable management of water resources.
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Official decision of the Iraqi Marshes’ inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List
Decision: 40 COM 8B.16 The World Heritage Committee, Having examined Documents WHC/16/40.COM/8B, WHC/16/40.COM/INF.8B1 and 1.WHC/16/40.COM/INF.8B2, Inscribes The Ahwar of Southern...
Save Iraqi Kurdistan’s rivers from deprivation
By Toon Bijnens, Save the Tigris Campaign There is no question about the commodification of natural resources and the damage...
Baghdad activists celebrate the Iraqi Marshes’ World Heritage inscription
By Ali Alkarkhi, Baghdad In a ferry in the middle of the Tigris River in Baghdad activists of the Save...
A Great Achievement After 4 years of Campaigning: The Marshes of Iraq Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage
Statement by the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign 20 July, 2016 Congratulations to the Iraqi people and everyone...
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...
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...