An aerial view of marshes of Chibayish during an environmental clean up campaign sponsored by the French embassy with local civil society organisations in the southern Iraqi Dhi Qar province, May 19, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
A view of a dried up body of a dead fish on drying earth in the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
A fisherman paddles in the waters of Iraq's receding marshes of Hawizeh, which straddle the border with Iran, in the southeastern Maysan province, Oct. 8, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
An aerial view of a fishing boat coasting through a canal in Iraq's receding southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, August 23, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Members of an Iraqi NGO clean up southern Iraq's marshes of Chibayish during an environmental campaign mission in the southern Iraqi province of Dhi Qar, May 19, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)