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Title:
Braving Iraq

Finalist Categories:
Conservation Hero

Film ID:
11384

Series:

Production Details:
Aqua Vita Films, Nature for WNET New York Public Media & BBC

Film Length:
56 min

Synopsis:

In the early 1990's, Saddam Hussein destroyed the Mesopotamian Marshes when its inhabitants rebelled against him. Once the richest wildlife habitat in the Middle East, this beautiful "Garden of Eden" was reduced to mile after mile of scorched earth, and was thought to have been destroyed forever. But one man is making an extraordinary effort to restore both animals and people to the scene of one of the greatest ecocides of the Twentieth Century. Is it a dream too far? Can man and animal live again in what remains one of the most politically troubled and dangerous place on earth?

URL:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/braving-iraq/introduction/5957/

Title:	Braving Iraq
Finalist Categories:	Conservation Hero
Film ID:	11384
Series:
Production Details:	Aqua Vita Films, Nature for WNET New York Public Media & BBC
Film Length:	56 min
Synopsis:	In the early 1990's, Saddam Hussein destroyed the Mesopotamian Marshes when its inhabitants rebelled against him. Once the richest wildlife habitat in the Middle East, this beautiful "Garden of Eden" was reduced to mile after mile of scorched earth, and was thought to have been destroyed forever. But one man is making an extraordinary effort to restore both animals and people to the scene of one of the greatest ecocides of the Twentieth Century. Is it a dream too far? Can man and animal live again in what remains one of the most politically troubled and dangerous place on earth?
URL:	http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/braving-iraq/introduction/5957/