Miracle in the Marshes of Iraq
Wildlife documentary. David Johnson records a huge habitat recreation project in Iraq, bringing back to life one of the world's greatest marshlands.
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, film-maker 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 reflood 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.
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Clips
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Mesopotamia's missing marshlands
Duration: 01:48
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Reflooding Iraq's marshes
Duration: 01:32
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Marbled teal return
Duration: 02:42
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Basra reed warblers
Duration: 02:31
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Director | David Johnson |
Executive Producer | Bernard Walton |
Series Editor | Tim Martin |
Broadcasts
- Tue 18 Jan 2011 20:0091热爆 HD & 91热爆 Two
- Wed 19 Jan 2011 00:0091热爆 HD
- Thu 17 Feb 2011 02:10
- Wed 10 Dec 2014 20:00
- Mon 15 Dec 2014 02:00
- Mon 23 Feb 2015 20:00
- Tue 24 Feb 2015 00:00
- Fri 25 Sep 2015 01:00
- Tue 31 May 2016 23:00
- Sun 5 Jun 2016 23:50
- Wed 26 Apr 2017 00:00
- Sat 15 Sep 2018 11:00