Looking back at the past year, I am proud of the work done by our small organization.  We have finished a state of the art model for the management of the marshes and published it, we conducted our monthly monitoring trips to the marshes without fail and we continue to update our database as we analyze trends. We also continue to do our bird surveys and have just completed our first survey effort in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. We also published the first bird book for Iraq in over 20 years, we are completing the detailed design of the New Eden Village, installing remote monitoring stations, began expanding our work in Kurdistan, and on and on…Read more

Nature Iraq becomes an affiliate to BirdLife International. Birdlife is an international organization made up of a consortium of conservation organizations that strive to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity. They work towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. With this move towards full partnership with BirdLife, Nature Iraq will become a membership-based group and agrees to work with other organizations in over one hundred countries worldwide on these goals and collaborate on regional programs in the Middle East... Read more