10/12/2023
Meet the real Mashoof
📸✍️ Destination Chaser Said
Welcome to the south of Iraq, and the most lush landscape you’ll see in this country mostly made up of arid desert: the Marshlands! Big plus: the reed-house architecture you won’t find anywhere else, but here 😍
These marshlands are pivotal for us worldwide: they’re one of the world’s largest wetland ecosystems on the planet – and the biggest of the Middle East! They’re the winter home for many globally threatened birds, and house many other unique species that are under threat of disappearing. This is their one hope.
There’s also the wonderful humans that call this their home: the Ma’dan, the Marsh Arabs – the people that are fighting to keep this environment alive, but struggling.
I invite you to learn more about this place, and the people and animals that live here over the next posts.
