ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq has lost 95 percent of the fish in its marshes and nearly ... resources and noted the importance of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the risk of their decline ...

StreetFood #Travel #Iraq But first, you choose a live fish, and then they kill and butcher it. After that, they roast it ...

He lives at Ras al-Bisha where the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates river ... freshwater species which are replaced by ocean fish. "In the summer, we have salt water," said Haddad.

A studied reader will know the troubles that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin faces ... several encounters with “electro-fishermen” (i.e., those who use generators to fish, killing anything else under the ...

MAJAR AL-KABIR-Thousands of dead fish have washed ashore in south ... as well as upstream dams have reduced the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where ancient civilisations flourished.

The Tigris flows from the mountainous ... northeastern Syria before entering Iraq at the town of Fish Khabur, then it links with the Euphrates River and empties into the Arabian Gulf.

Recalling UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' statement during his Iraq visit, Al-Sudani stressed that the Tigris and Euphrates are a global concern, not merely a local issue. The Prime ...

Iraq’s ancient Mesopotamian marshlands are in danger of drying due to a sharp fall in water levels in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers during the country’s worst heatwave in four decades, the ...

He lives at Ras Al-Bisha where the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates river, the Shatt Al Arab ... pushes out the most prized freshwater species which are replaced by ocean fish. “In the summer, ...