Natural World - Season 30 Episode 9
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.
First Air Date : 1983-10-30
Last Air date : 2020-03-20
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
Cast : David Attenborough, John Hannah, Juliet Stevenson
Crew : Brian Jackman (Writer), Andrew Graham-Brown (Director), Mike Birkhead (Director)
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Subtitles :
- Season 30 : Episode 12010-07-08
- Season 30 : Episode 22010-08-05
- Season 30 : Episode 32010-08-12
- Season 30 : Episode 42010-08-19
- Season 30 : Episode 52010-09-02
- Season 30 : Episode 62010-11-03
- Season 30 : Episode 72010-12-07
- Season 30 : Episode 82010-12-17
- Season 30 : Episode 92011-01-18
- Season 30 : Episode 102011-02-01
- Season 30 : Episode 112011-02-08
- Season 30 : Episode 122011-02-15
- Season 30 : Episode 132011-02-22
- Season 30 : Episode 142011-03-01