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| Contributor | maysa |
| Geographical coverage | IRAQ |
| Keywords | HAWIZEH , RAMSAR , MARSH |
| Release date | 22/05/2012 |
In the past five years the following main steps have been undertaken in support of the Hawizeh
Marsh:
• UNEP and Nature Iraq prepared two digital maps of the status of the area in October 2005
• MoE, MoWR and Nature Iraq, cooperated and delivered in 2007 a “Ramsar Information Sheet” outlining the ecological and cultural features of the area and the rationale for its proposed designation as Ramsar site.
• Nature Iraq organized a meeting in July and a workshop in September 2007, to draft the outline for the management plan.
• The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands came into force for Iraq on 17 February 2008.
• Two draft versions of the management plan were presented and agreed with the Iraqi authorities on April 2008 and October 2008
• The so updated Management of the Hawizeh Marsh Site under the Ramsar Convention –Volume 1 and 2‐ was delivered on December 2008.
• In April 2010 the site was included in the Montreux Record. The reasons for adverse change, or potential adverse change, cited in the report, are related to the significant decreased in water inflows to the marsh caused by external and internal factors.