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SEASON 2011 • EPISODE 1

BBC: Natural World

"Miracle in the Marshes of Iraq"

Date Aired: Jan 17, 2011 (United Kingdom)

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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 armor, filmmaker David Johnson travels to the Mesopotamian Marshes to follow the work of Azzam
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