Roshi Joan Halifax has linked in UPAYA eNEWS June 11:Brave Earth to Azzam Alwash , CEO emeritus extraordinaire of Nature Iraq, in the 2010 PBS video. Azzam just received the Goldman Environmental Award so this film has been reissued. Its not as good as the 2009 60 Minutes feature because the National Geographic filmmakers dwell on their own paranoid and self defense training which in fact kept them at an unfortunate distance from the marsh people but luckily not Azzam. (See also my website for video in progress about the marshes: meridelrubentseineden-i-iraq. Asap I will blog newest report about our March trip there with new images, video, and garden design drawings.) Braving Iraq: Finding Water for the Marshes: PBS on Assam Alwash The task of restoring water to Iraq’s marshlands is a difficult and complicated one. First, it involves the enor ndmous engineering aspect of breaching the embankments and canals built by Saddam in the 1990’s to destroy the unique habitat of the Ma’dan, Iraq’s Marsh Arabs. And in today’s world, the restoration must also take on the continuing impact of war, hydroelectric dams, droughts, political sanctions and treaties, a general lack of conservation policy and global warming. Since returning to the marshlands in 2003 from his adopted home in the United States, Azzam Alwash has struggled to achieve his goal of resurrecting the historic wetlands area for the indigenous people and wildlife against all of those challenges. As the area comes slowly back to life, Marsh Arabs, who were in exile, have begun to return to the region to begin their lives there again. And many unique bird species, such as slender-billed gulls, marbled teal, and endangered Basra reed warblers, have also repopulated the area. It is a hopeful start against long odds..
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:09:47 +0000
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