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Latest sandstorm brings Iraq to standstill

Another sandstorm that descended Monday on Iraq sent at least 2,000 people to hospital with breathing problems and led to the closure of airports, schools and public offices across the country.

Climate change cripples Iraqi farmers’ crops

Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the governate of Basra produced enough to feed his family of eight.

The cradle of Iraq's ecosystem: Mesopotamian Marshes in desperate need of environmental protection

One of Iraq's most enchanting ecological treasures, the Mesopotamian Marshes, is under severe threat from increased environmental degradation, having endured the wrath of Saddam and now the consequences of climate change.

Scale of illegal bird killing in the Middle East revealed for first time

August 27 - A study out today, for the first time, estimates the scale and extent of the illegal killing and taking of wild birds in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Iran.

Iraqis turn to budding ecotourism to save marshes

Thirty years after Saddam Hussein starved them of water, Iraq's southern marshes are blossoming once more thanks to a wave of ecotourists picnicking and paddling down their replenished river bends.

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Other Information about National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans

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Iraq - Submission 2-Role of Shatt al-Arab River

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Iraq - Submission 3-Heavy metals in zooplankton organisms, of NW Arabian Gulf

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Iraq - Submission 1-Is the northwestern Arabian Gulf a biodiversity hotspot