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  • Flower festival

    From May 7 till May 9, Nature Iraq participated in the Flower Festival in Sulaymania in order to present our projects to visitors and to recruit members.

    See the photo's here

  • Birdlife regional partnership meeting in Sulaimaniya

    Nature Iraq, Birdlife Partner, is proud to announce that the 10thBirdLife Middle East Partnership Meeting will be held from Friday 11th to Monday 14th of May 2012 in Sulaimaniya, Iraq along with a World Migratory Bird Day celebration.

  • Nature Iraq Reptile and Amphibians Advisory Team

    Iraq is home to a significant diversity of reptiles and amphibians who make their homes in habitats ranging from the mountains to the deserts to the wetlands, but this diversity remains largely unexamined and unaccounted for.  Since the 1959 publication of KT Khalaf’sReptiles of Iraq with Some Notes on the Amphibians, no major work has been done to document these species.

    The determination of a new range abundance of the Critically Endangered Kurdistan Newt during Nature Iraq Key Biodiversity Area field surveys in Sulaimani has opened many links between Nature Iraq and

  • Nature Iraq supports petition to Unesco about Ilisu dam

     Nature Iraq supports the petition addressed to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee that has been  launched in March with the objective to save unique world cultural and natural heritage on the Tigris River inMesopotamia. Particularly, the unique antique town Hasankeyf, with a past of at least 10,000 year of continuous settlement, in the mainly Kurdish populated Southeast of Turkey and theMesopotamian Marshlands in South of Iraq, the largest wetlands of the Middle East cultivated by Millions of “Marsh Arabs“, are threatened by the Ilisu Dam.

  • Botany advanced red-listing training: apply now

    A Botany Advanced Red-listing Training will be offered by Nature Iraq & the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and is funded by the Darwin Initiative 

    Red-listing is a process of assessing available data on species distribution, abundance and threat to determine if species may be under threat of extinction. 

  • Joint UK and Iraqi team set to work on major new conservation initiative in Iraq

    Thanks to a £300,000 Grant from Defra’s Darwin Initiative, a major new three year conservation programme is starting in Iraq. Focusing on the mountainous region of Kurdistan the project will involve experts from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and BirdLife International (BirdLife), in partnership with Iraqi NGO Nature Iraq (NI). 

    The project will generate new data for conservation and resources for protected area management and environmental education.

  • Green Music and Arts festival

    On April 20th , in Earth day weekend, the Green Music and Arts Festival was held in Sulaymania, Iraq. Upwards a thousand people flocked out to the Roman Theatre Azady Parc to enjoy music, drama, and other live performances.

  • Trailer World Migratory Bird Day launched

    The World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) 2012 campaign team is excited to announce the release of this year’s campaign trailer! The two-minute animated video helps explain this year’s theme: Migratory birds and people – together through time, and is inspired by the 2012 WMBD Poster. It aims to enhance the viewers’ understanding of migratory birds and the birds' relevance for mankind.

    Throughout time and across cultures humans have relied on birds, be it to supply food, to deliver messages, or to serve as symbols of power and prestige.

  • Green Music & Arts Festival Press Release

    Nature Iraq and Development Now are pleased to announce the inaugural Green Music and Arts
    Festival, to be held in Sulaimani’s Azadi Park on April 20th, the Friday before Earth Day. The first
    event of its kind held in Iraq, the Festival will celebrate the beauty of nature, the unique landscape of
    this corner of the world, and the people and organizations who are devoted to protecting the
    environment through the arts and education...Read more by clicking here

  • Waterkeeper Lesser zab river action: stopping the source of garbage

    As part of the Lesser Zab Threat Assessment sponsored by the Rufford Small Grants Fund, the Iraq Upper Tigris Waterkeeper, identified that municipal garbage is a major threat to the Lesser Zab River in the town of Dukan. During the assessment of the river, garbage has been routinely found on the river banks and floating in the river throughout many of the survey areas. Towns such as Dukan located in northern Iraq are typical in this regard.