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Iraqi efforts to bring the marshes of the World Heritage List
Iraqi efforts to bring the marshes of the World Heritage List
Iraq mobilize the international effort to bring the marshes of the World Heritage List and revive tourism
Author: MJ
Editor: BK 5/9/2016 11:50 Number of Views: 78
Editor: BK 5/9/2016 11:50 Number of Views: 78
Long-Presse / Baghdad
On a total area of approximately seven thousand and 700 square kilometers, and one is from the "oldest and richest" areas of the world environmentally and culturally diverse, dating back to the dawn of history, that is, five thousand years ago, namely the Iraqi marshlands, which is believed to contain the "Garden of Eden", and the house Abu prophets, Abraham, and Iraq has struggled for inclusion in the World Heritage list.
He said the technical agent for the Department of Health and Environmental Affairs, Jassim agriculture, in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "for the nomination of the marshes of the list of World Heritage advocating is not new, having been working on it for many years and the setting of it's currently at a conference in the Turkish city of Istanbul during the next July, "noting that" the Iraqi marshlands is little international attention as it represents the historical and civilizational said global as well as being folkloric area inhabited hinterland back to the dawn of civilization. "
He said the agricultural, that "Iraq is moving through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on many of the countries concerned to urge them to vote in favor of the development of the marshes of Iraq as part of the World Heritage list, and go a long way in mobilizing civil society organizations in Istanbul to put pressure on the countries concerned in this regard."
And marshes that had been confined to the provinces (Maysan, Dhi Qar and Basra), in 1992 during the era of the former regime, the largest drying aqueous swamp in the world the crime, and after 2003, successive Iraqi governments have sought to re-revive, but lack of water prevented this.
He said the technical agent for the Department of Health and Environmental Affairs, said "the marshes exposed to crimes of drying accorded the former regime time, and the second this past summer, the lack of water releases to the severity of the temperature," adding, "But the water releases of the marshes have been increased during the current 2016, a prelude to the restoration of normal life in it."
He said the agricultural, that "the inclusion of marsh within the World Heritage List contribute to preserve them and prevent a repeat of dried and ensure water quota fixed for it."
The Ministry of Water Resources, said in a statement seen by (long-Presse), it's a continuous supply areas of marsh water quota contributions, which amounted to absolute Altsariv from the Euphrates River during the Alnoazem caudal in Dhi Qar province, the marshlands Chabaish, Central and marshes for the duration of 1/12 / 2015 up to 30.4.2016 more than one billion cubic meters Stockpile.
The ministry also reported that it has launched more than 85 million cubic meters of Gharraf River to Hor Dad your button, from the nape of heresy, where water levels rose in the Euphrates River in the city of Chabaish of up to 1.18 m during the period from 18-20 of April 2016.
He went on the technical agent for the Department of Health and Environmental Affairs, saying that there is "limited attempts to build residential complexes and houses of brick, in the marshes, in violation of prohibited law", returned to the "original construction in the marsh is one of the reeds Sumerian, and therefore the ministry has chosen the Sumerian Almahov which carries the slogan bird, which was used by the ancient inhabitants of Iraq according to what was found in the ancient manuscripts. "
The peasant, that "the ministry is seeking to preserve the nature of the environment for the people of the marshes, to the presence of the determinants and the strict standards required for accession to the World Heritage List, including the lack of overtaking on the innate natural environment of the area concerned."
For her part, Tourism and Antiquities of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Antiquities Authority, it has developed an integrated program for the tourist areas of the marsh.
The head of the Authority, Mahmoud al-Zubaidi, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), he said that "the Commission agreed in principle with the British company to establish a tourist facility in the marshes Chabaish, includes the city of games and other infrastructure," noting that "the project has been delayed due to the events experienced by Iraq after June 2014 the past. "
He revealed Zubaidi, for "there is coordination with the private sector to invest in the marshes on the level of housing, services and infrastructure, and the establishment of the city of games, as well as directing of tourist groups from ministries and students of schools and universities in Iraq for the region," stressing "the existence of the movement with the Vatican on the pilgrims Christians to the Prophet House Ibrahim (AS) and marshes in the province of Dhi Qar, (350 km south of Baghdad). "
He said head of the Tourism and Antiquities Authority, that "the body will move to invite international companies to invest in the marshes, especially Chabaish, after the improvement of the security situation there."
The marsh area, five Dhi Qar province, space, position the city of Nasiriyah, and divided into ten administrative units out of 20 annexed the province, with an estimated marshes of Nasiriyah area before drying the early nineties of the last century, one million and 48 thousand acres, while the total area which has been water flooded after 2003 about 50 percent of the total area of the marshes of Nasiriyah.
Activists and civil society organizations in the province of Dhi Qar, announced on Sunday (eighth of May 2016), the launch of a campaign to support the nomination of the southern Iraqi marshes areas and locations of artifacts to the World Heritage list, and while they called for "intensifying media effort to publicize the value of civilization and natural and environmental to those areas, "promised that the acceptance of that regulation maintains the effects of" vandalism and tampering with "the necessary guarantees for the recovery of the marsh water quota and transmits the area of local universal.
He was the governor of Dhi Qar, Yahia Nasseri announced, in, (the fifth of Oaaralhala), the launch of a campaign to support the southern Iraqi marshes and cities archaeological nomination to the World Heritage list, while the United States has expressed its support for the file, Nature Iraq organization revealed the completion of the accession of those sites File to the World heritage list.
He called on the governor of Dhi Qar, in (the 19 of November 2015 the past), the Council of Ministers and the Foreign Ministry to rally support for file marshes to resolve the voting process for the benefit of its accession to the World Heritage List.
The province of Dhi Qar administration is working with the Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to declare Central marshes and South marshes and sites of Ur and Eridu area within the World Heritage list in the current 2016.
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On a total area of approximately seven thousand and 700 square kilometers, and one is from the "oldest and richest" areas of the world environmentally and culturally diverse, dating back to the dawn of history, that is, five thousand years ago, namely the Iraqi marshlands, which is believed to contain the "Garden of Eden", and the house Abu prophets, Abraham, and Iraq has struggled for inclusion in the World Heritage list.
He said the technical agent for the Department of Health and Environmental Affairs, Jassim agriculture, in an interview to the (long-Presse), said that "for the nomination of the marshes of the list of World Heritage advocating is not new, having been working on it for many years and the setting of it's currently at a conference in the Turkish city of Istanbul during the next July, "noting that" the Iraqi marshlands is little international attention as it represents the historical and civilizational said global as well as being folkloric area inhabited hinterland back to the dawn of civilization. "
He said the agricultural, that "Iraq is moving through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on many of the countries concerned to urge them to vote in favor of the development of the marshes of Iraq as part of the World Heritage list, and go a long way in mobilizing civil society organizations in Istanbul to put pressure on the countries concerned in this regard."
And marshes that had been confined to the provinces (Maysan, Dhi Qar and Basra), in 1992 during the era of the former regime, the largest drying aqueous swamp in the world the crime, and after 2003, successive Iraqi governments have sought to re-revive, but lack of water prevented this.
He said the technical agent for the Department of Health and Environmental Affairs, said "the marshes exposed to crimes of drying accorded the former regime time, and the second this past summer, the lack of water releases to the severity of the temperature," adding, "But the water releases of the marshes have been increased during the current 2016, a prelude to the restoration of normal life in it."
He said the agricultural, that "the inclusion of marsh within the World Heritage List contribute to preserve them and prevent a repeat of dried and ensure water quota fixed for it."
The Ministry of Water Resources, said in a statement seen by (long-Presse), it's a continuous supply areas of marsh water quota contributions, which amounted to absolute Altsariv from the Euphrates River during the Alnoazem caudal in Dhi Qar province, the marshlands Chabaish, Central and marshes for the duration of 1/12 / 2015 up to 30.4.2016 more than one billion cubic meters Stockpile.
The ministry also reported that it has launched more than 85 million cubic meters of Gharraf River to Hor Dad your button, from the nape of heresy, where water levels rose in the Euphrates River in the city of Chabaish of up to 1.18 m during the period from 18-20 of April 2016.
He went on the technical agent for the Department of Health and Environmental Affairs, saying that there is "limited attempts to build residential complexes and houses of brick, in the marshes, in violation of prohibited law", returned to the "original construction in the marsh is one of the reeds Sumerian, and therefore the ministry has chosen the Sumerian Almahov which carries the slogan bird, which was used by the ancient inhabitants of Iraq according to what was found in the ancient manuscripts. "
The peasant, that "the ministry is seeking to preserve the nature of the environment for the people of the marshes, to the presence of the determinants and the strict standards required for accession to the World Heritage List, including the lack of overtaking on the innate natural environment of the area concerned."
For her part, Tourism and Antiquities of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Antiquities Authority, it has developed an integrated program for the tourist areas of the marsh.
The head of the Authority, Mahmoud al-Zubaidi, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), he said that "the Commission agreed in principle with the British company to establish a tourist facility in the marshes Chabaish, includes the city of games and other infrastructure," noting that "the project has been delayed due to the events experienced by Iraq after June 2014 the past. "
He revealed Zubaidi, for "there is coordination with the private sector to invest in the marshes on the level of housing, services and infrastructure, and the establishment of the city of games, as well as directing of tourist groups from ministries and students of schools and universities in Iraq for the region," stressing "the existence of the movement with the Vatican on the pilgrims Christians to the Prophet House Ibrahim (AS) and marshes in the province of Dhi Qar, (350 km south of Baghdad). "
He said head of the Tourism and Antiquities Authority, that "the body will move to invite international companies to invest in the marshes, especially Chabaish, after the improvement of the security situation there."
The marsh area, five Dhi Qar province, space, position the city of Nasiriyah, and divided into ten administrative units out of 20 annexed the province, with an estimated marshes of Nasiriyah area before drying the early nineties of the last century, one million and 48 thousand acres, while the total area which has been water flooded after 2003 about 50 percent of the total area of the marshes of Nasiriyah.
Activists and civil society organizations in the province of Dhi Qar, announced on Sunday (eighth of May 2016), the launch of a campaign to support the nomination of the southern Iraqi marshes areas and locations of artifacts to the World Heritage list, and while they called for "intensifying media effort to publicize the value of civilization and natural and environmental to those areas, "promised that the acceptance of that regulation maintains the effects of" vandalism and tampering with "the necessary guarantees for the recovery of the marsh water quota and transmits the area of local universal.
He was the governor of Dhi Qar, Yahia Nasseri announced, in, (the fifth of Oaaralhala), the launch of a campaign to support the southern Iraqi marshes and cities archaeological nomination to the World Heritage list, while the United States has expressed its support for the file, Nature Iraq organization revealed the completion of the accession of those sites File to the World heritage list.
He called on the governor of Dhi Qar, in (the 19 of November 2015 the past), the Council of Ministers and the Foreign Ministry to rally support for file marshes to resolve the voting process for the benefit of its accession to the World Heritage List.
The province of Dhi Qar administration is working with the Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to declare Central marshes and South marshes and sites of Ur and Eridu area within the World Heritage list in the current 2016.
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