It's the largest and most ambitious habitat recreation project ever known: to bring back to life one of the world's greatest marshlands. And it's happening in Iraq.
Considered to be the original Garden of Eden, the marshes were once Iraq's wildlife jewel, where man and nature thrived for 5,000 years. But in the 1990s, Saddam Hussein drained these gigantic wetlands and turned them into a desert, destroying a home to thousands of people and millions of birds.
Donning his body armour, filmmaker David Johnson travels to the Mesopotamian Marshes to follow the work of Azzam Alwash, the visionary Iraqi engineer at the centre of this extraordinary scheme to re-flood hundreds of miles of desert and bring back life to the sands. This is a view of Iraq the world never sees, a world of huge reed beds and vast flocks of birds that fill the sky. But nothing ever quite goes to plan in Iraq.
| Title | Natural World - Season 30 Episode 9 Miracle in the Marshes of Iraq |
|---|---|
| Year | 2020 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Country | United Kingdom, France |
| Studio | BBC Two |
| Cast | David Attenborough, John Hannah, Juliet Stevenson |
| Crew | Brian Jackman (Writer), Andrew Graham-Brown (Director), Mike Birkhead (Director) |
| Alternative Titles | Přirozený svět, BBC Natural World, Természetes világ, Naturens värld |
| Keyword | wildlife, animals, nature, environment, nature documentary |
| First Air Date | Oct 30, 1983 |
| Last Air date | Mar 20, 2020 |
| Season | 39 Season |
| Episode | 543 Episode |
| Runtime | 60:14 minutes |
| Quality | HD |
| IMDb: | 7.00/ 10 by 22.00 users |
| Popularity | 61.518 |
| Language | English |
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