伊拉克，这几个字让人联想到沙漠、石油、内战、杀戮、暴力，但曾经的伊拉克也有着大量的鱼场，漫天的鸟儿，一望无际的湖泊。由底格里斯河幼发拉底河共同孕育美索不达米亚沼泽，曾经是圣经中的伊甸园。但由于人类活动的破坏，这里的沼泽地几乎被完全毁灭，科学家们正在采取措施，挽救这片曾经的绿色天堂。
伊拉克南部曾有着世界上极其重要的沼泽地，沼泽地面积广阔，约占15000平方公里，那就是美索不达米亚沼泽地，很多圣经学者认为那里是先前的伊甸园，伊拉克前总统萨达姆·侯赛因政权毁坏了沼泽，如今人们为重建沼泽地共同努力着。
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, film-maker 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.
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