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Desertification is eating away at Iraq’s land.. 100 thousand acres are lost annually
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Shafaq News/ The head of the Strategic Center for Human Rights in Iraq, Fadhel Al-Gharawi, confirmed on Monday that the country loses 100,000 dunums annually due to climate change, desertification and drought.
He added in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency, that the area of desertified lands in Iraq amounts to about 27 million dunums, which is approximately equivalent to 15 percent of the country's area, while about 55 percent of Iraq's area is considered lands threatened by desertification, indicating that the vegetation cover in Iraq decreased from 50% to 17%.
He stressed that according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the forest areas in Iraq now constitute only 8,250 square kilometers, or 2% of the total area of the country.
He added that extreme weather, climate change, sandstorms, scarcity of rain and global warming have contributed to the decline in vegetation cover in Iraq.
He explained that the lack of vegetation cover contributed to the increase in pollution rates and its direct effects on human health and its direct threat to food security.
Al-Gharawi called on the government, all governorates, institutions and citizens to launch a campaign to plant 15 billion trees of perennial species that are resistant to climate conditions over the next ten years to compensate for the severe shortage in vegetation cover.
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He added in a statement received by Shafaq News Agency, that the area of desertified lands in Iraq amounts to about 27 million dunums, which is approximately equivalent to 15 percent of the country's area, while about 55 percent of Iraq's area is considered lands threatened by desertification, indicating that the vegetation cover in Iraq decreased from 50% to 17%.
He stressed that according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the forest areas in Iraq now constitute only 8,250 square kilometers, or 2% of the total area of the country.
He added that extreme weather, climate change, sandstorms, scarcity of rain and global warming have contributed to the decline in vegetation cover in Iraq.
He explained that the lack of vegetation cover contributed to the increase in pollution rates and its direct effects on human health and its direct threat to food security.
Al-Gharawi called on the government, all governorates, institutions and citizens to launch a campaign to plant 15 billion trees of perennial species that are resistant to climate conditions over the next ten years to compensate for the severe shortage in vegetation cover.
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