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Strengthening the socio-economic and environmental resilience of local communities

In southern Iraq, the wetlands at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are a UNESCO biodiversity heritage site. Its population, the Marsh Arabs or Maadan, suffered destruction and persecution under the regime of Saddam Hussein, who completely drained the marshes in the 1980s and 1990s. For these people, who have lived for millennia […]