Hawizeh Marshes are burning, with over 90% destroyed. Activists allege forced displacement for border construction and oil ...

The millennia-old history of the marshes -- the reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden -- "would end with this oilfield", said the moustached, tanned activist. In 2023, as China became a major ...

A fisherman casts his net into the Chabaish marsh in Nasiriyah, about 320 km southeast of Baghdad. Iraq’s southern marshes, a lush remnant of the cradle of civilization, were reborn after the ...

Miles of reed stalks and baked mud are all that can be seen of much of Iraq's ancient marshes this year, as a lack of water threatens to turn one of the world's most important wetlands to ...

Iraq probes fish die-off in southern marshes AFP AFP Jun 2, 2025 Updated 15 mins ago 0 This aerial view shows a man inspecting dead fish during a mass die-off at the Ibn Najm marsh Qassem al-KAABI ...

Iraqi Engineers Revitalize Marshes That Hussein Had Drained. By Rajiv Chandrasekaran. October 10, 2003 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. ZAYAD, Iraq -- The surging water from the Euphrates River first quenched ...

Poisoned water, illegal dams and even armed clashes: these days, fishing for precious barbels in Iraq's majestic river marshes involves navigating precarious waters. An Iraqi fisherman makes his ...

Iraq's southern marshlands were once as famous as the Florida Everglades; they supported a vibrant culture based on fishing, water-buffalo herding and reed gathering. The Marsh Arabs were on their ...

The marshes in Iraq's south covered 9,000 square km (3,475 square miles) in the 1970s, but had shrunk to just 760 square km by 2002.

Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern marshlands, the latest in a string of such events in recent years.One possible cause for the localised die-off ...

Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern marshlands, the latest in a string of such events in recent years.

Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern marshlands, the latest in a string of such events in recent years. One possible cause for the localised die ...