The Mesopotamian Marshlands: Demise of an Ecosystem
Publisher: Hassan Partow (UNEP)
Date: 2000
Topics: Cooperation, Dispute Resolution/Mediation, Economic Recovery, Governance, Land, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Countries: Iraq, Kuwait, Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye
UNEP Study Sounds Alarm about the Disappearance of the Mesopotamian Marshlands Despite intermittent warnings against the imminent decline of the Mesopotamian marshlands, there has been little immediate action to avoid such a fate. Iraq's difficult situation in the past decade has limited access to and hindered monitoring of events in the marshlands. As a result, this major ecological disaster, broadly comparable in extent and rapidity to the drying of the Aral Sea and the deforestation of large tracts of Amazonia, has gone virtually unreported until now.