Iraq Marshlands Restored to Glory | BBC Earth Explore

[@catherine_404]

These people are real heroes

[@mekmalcci300]

Thanks Cathy . Sumerian

[@عليجبار-ن9س3ر]

Thanks 🌹 I hope u come to see my country

[@qlz8327]

CatherineZ Thanks for complementing my country!

[@mr.rpg7753]

If you come to Iraq to an area (Arabs Jabour).. this great zone

[@عليجبار-ن9س3ر]

Welcome to my country Iraq 🇮🇶 ❤️😍

[@Rainkit]

This made me feel very happy. I hear so much about the bad things that people do both to the world and each other. It was nice to hear how these nomads were able to restore this area and hopefully their way of life after facing such persecution.

[@Ali-aliraqi7000]

Like their Sumerian ancestors, they were hostile to rulers

[@nemosdiary8271]

I want to see Iraq thrive again with wildlife, help Iraq set up national parks and wildlife sanctuaries and nature reserve

[@bmwbmw3553]

Iraq is so rich with mashes rivers everything ,but isreal hates iraq and the do everthing to destroy iraq the urge turcky to build the damns and they support isis and kurd to divid iraq .

[@quadrim.a.2816]

❤❤❤❤❤ Mashallah the Marshes regrown by the efforts and Grace of Exalted Allah zsh and hope everything as former shall come back to existence!❤❤❤❤❤

[@avariceseven9443]

This felt dreamy. I feel like I was watching those old classic nature documentaries. The scenery, that very relaxing music...I'm not saying it's boring but I almost fell asleep cause of how good this made me feel and the nostalgia. It was like decades ago when I use to watch these kinds of shows on the TV on lazy afternoons. Watching animals be animals in their natural habitats thousands of miles away from me. I can't find the exact words to describe it but it makes me sleepy, sad and relaxed. By the way, can somebody tell me what the soundtrack is called?

[@ScienceByMike]

Glad to hear something positive from Iraq. More videos like this are needed.

[@esazebari1879]

Search for (north of iraq) you will be shocked

[@ScienceByMike]

@@esazebari1879 I really appreciate your reply. Those type of videos like north of Iraq don’t reach any news outlet in America and it’s hard to find anything like that. I’ll be watching tons of those this week.

[@esazebari1879]

@@ScienceByMike you're welcome,There is a great media injustice against our governorate in northern Iraq, despite the beauty of its nature and its safety, but no one makes this aspect shown to the world.

[@ScienceByMike]

@@esazebari1879 one day I’d love to visit. Sadly I don’t make that type of money to travel as much as I want but I’ll add it to my bucket list.

[@esazebari1879]

@@ScienceByMike I hope that there will come a day in which you can fulfill all your desires, you are welcome at any time, and I will be glad to welcome you and make you happy

[@hassanalyasiri2374]

The place where the first civilization (sumerian) started 9000 BC and invented the first language in the earth, built amazing civilizations and influenced the whole world starting from persian and turks to the rest of the world ❤️🇮🇶 this is mesopotamia ❤️

[@nothing8114]

1:51 the nature beauty

[@ECalland]

Beauty. Brings joy to my heart!

[@sujan4696]

Thought of relief passed in the form of smile...by glance at title since I known about drying of marshland in Iraq.

[@invisiblejaguar1]

I know we humans have a reputation for destruction of our own planet, but here's a shinning example that we're also capable of restoring Earth's beauty.

[@milekrizman]

Now we should revive Sumerian language in these marshes.

[@anassuhail]

Just amazing 😍👌🏻

[@candelariarodriguezbento5966]

Very happy the people can back and everything been restore

[@Ali-aliraqi7000]

They continue to live the lives of their Sumerian ancestors, speaking their own words and resisting the occupation from the fall of their ancestral state of Sumer to the present day.

[@macrospeed4804]

سومرين همه عرب شيعه سرقو الارض ودمرو وحتى الحيونات تواجه الانقراض بسببهم

[@aymenezzat3356]

I’m from Iraq

[@Ochibason]

Amazingingly beautiful from something so horrendously tragic and disgusting. Where can one find more updated vids? Thank you.

[@nature_with_zulfu]

2:31 - İsn't it a Great Cormorant rather than Pygmy?

[@lewisistic]

I hope trees start flourishing ;)

[@chandrasekar7578]

Marshland and wetlands are the same? Is this the results of Ramsar convention?

[@chandrasekar7578]

Is this the effect of Ramsar convention?

[@Jesse__H]

This was cool but it feels like the second half of something? Like I'm missing the bit about what exactly Saddam did to the marshlands and why? edit nvm it is lol

[@AJ-xm4xc]

Jesse H. He poisoned them, drained them, everything to punish and destroy. Glad to see his work undone.

[@ahmedbasimal-baghdadi5010]

I am from Iraq. I can tell you the first part. Saddam dried the marshes because he though that they were a threat to him. He thought that his oppositionists from Shiite fighters hide in these areas. In fact, Saddam killed the human and the non-human. Even nature did not escape his genocides.

[@karimaliraqi8931]

Saddam did all this in the marshes and worked to dry them in order to eliminate the revolution and the uprising that took place in 1990 against his dictatorial regime in southern Iraq, dried the marshes and killed people and worked to sabotage all aspects of life

[@Aldrin2002]

The first part is on 60minutes its dated 2011. check it out.

[@ab_12_8]

he dried up the marshes because he thought the marsh arabs were helping ppl rebel against him but giving them shelter in the marshes, so he dried up the marshes as punishment. he did a similar thing during the iraq iran war, the iranians were using the palm trees of iraq as places to hide behind during battle and they would hide at the top of the palm trees and jump down and kill any iraqi soldier walking by, so he cut down all the palm trees in southern iraq.

[@AAYMF]

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[@mikeletterst9882]

What a hero.. Saddam was a criminal!

[@oliverwilson11]

Propaganda for the British invasion

[@tatsusama3192]

Hey, Saddam did something right!:D

[@WheatleyBot]

What? What did he do right?

[@iftikhar515]

Saddam was a great hero

[@WheatleyBot]

No he was not.

[@MessiMerdo]

A filthy dictator that tried to turn everything into desert for more oil.

[@husseinoskovjino9398]

MessiMania Its the opposite You don’t know any thing go away

[@husseinoskovjino9398]

moonlight note Yes he was

[@salihalraziqi4963]

I'm from Iraq, we don't like him over here (mostly some people actully like him but they are by far a minority),you can like saddam but only iraqi can decide if he was a hero or not, you have no idea on what he has done to our beatifull country.