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class="storycontent"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/09/paradise-found-water-and-life-return-to-iraqs-garden-of-eden/" title="Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811im_/http://static.flickr.com/4074/4777445917_ea65faecc3.jpg" class="alignleft" alt="Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’" width="80"/></a> <p>One of Saddam Hussein’s greatest acts of ecological destruction – the draining of the Mesopotamian marshes – has been reversed as birds and rivers return to the region Saddam Hussein’s draining of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq – recorded as the Garden of Eden in the Bible – was one of the most infamous outrages...<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/09/paradise-found-water-and-life-return-to-iraqs-garden-of-eden/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p> </div> <p 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Asks Martin Chulov. BAGHDAD — From his mud brick home on the edge of the Garden of Eden, Awda Khasaf has twice seen his country’s lifeblood seep away. 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(IRIN) – Farmers and fisherman in Iraq’s southern marshlands have had mixed fortunes in the past couple of decades, but livelihood prospects are now looking increasingly bleak. Back in 1993, fisherman Nasser Shamkhi Dawood, now aged 63, abandoned the area after former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein diverted water away from...<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/09/22/iraq-iraqs-marshlands-in-peril-again/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p> </div> <p class="meta">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/basra/" rel="tag">Basra</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/basrah-marshes/" rel="tag">Basrah marshes</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dams/" rel="tag">Dams</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/irin/" rel="tag">IRIN</a>, <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/author/editors/" title="Posts by Editors">Editors</a> </div> <div class="storycontent"> <p>كشفت القيادات الأمنية في محافظة ميسان عن تنفيذ خطة أمنية على الحدود مع محافظة البصرة والمناطق المتاخمة لإيران. واعلن قائد الفرقة العاشرة في ميسان اللواء حبيب الحسيني في تصريح صحفي عن تطبيق خطة أمنية جديدة بعنوان (سور العراق) ، موضحا أن العملية تأتي استكمالا لخطة فرض القانون التي أطلقها القائد العام...<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/09/03/%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d9%85%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%ac%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b7%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p> </div> <p class="meta">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/border-security/" rel="tag">Border Security</a>, <a 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the area under cultivation appears to be diminishing rapidly due to low water levels in the Euphrates and Tigris and resulting higher levels of soil salinity. “We are facing a very tough situation this summer...<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/05/26/iraq-disappearing-paddy-fields/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p> </div> <p class="meta">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/agriculture/" rel="tag">Agriculture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-mishkhab/" rel="tag">al mishkhab</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/babil/" rel="tag">babil</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad/" rel="tag">Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dams/" rel="tag">Dams</a>, <a 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paddy fields">No Comments »</a></p> </div> <div class="posts"> <h2 id="post-6160"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/05/13/grim-prospects-for-basra-marsh-dwellers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Grim Prospects for Basra Marsh Dwellers">Grim Prospects for Basra Marsh Dwellers</a></h2> <div class="meta"> <div class="date">May 13, 2009</div> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/author/editors/" title="Posts by Editors">Editors</a> </div> <div class="storycontent"> <p> Reporter finds local people struggling to revive their ancient lifestyle. Our motorboat glided over an area that was dry land a mere month ago, attracting the attention of the marsh dwellers at the water’s edge. Seeing our urban clothes, one of them mistook us for government officials and called out, “May Allah have mercy...<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/05/13/grim-prospects-for-basra-marsh-dwellers/" class="more-link">Read more »</a></p> </div> <p class="meta">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ali-hassan-al-majid/" rel="tag">Ali Hassan al-Majid</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/children/" rel="tag">Children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dams/" rel="tag">Dams</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/destitution/" rel="tag">destitution</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110104083811/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/drought/" rel="tag">drought</a>, <a 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