Iraq's marshes are dying, and a civilisation with them
Even at their centre in Chibayish, only a few expanses of the ancient waterways -- home to a Marsh Arab culture that goes back millennia -- survive, linked by channels that snake through the reeds.
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(FILES) French veterinarian Herve Petit from the French NGO Veterinaires sans frontieres (VSF), looks at buffaloes at a farm in the Chibayish marshland in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province. (AFP)
By NewVision Reporter
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Chibayish, Iraq | AFP
Mohammed Hamid Nour is only 23, but he is already nostalgic for how Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes once were before drought dried them up,