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One Quarter To Go

Image © Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

"Hasan bin Manati in Thesiger's tarada," Wilfred Thesiger, 1956. Hasan bin Manati, the Faraigut captain of Thesiger's tarada, rowed and poled Thesiger far afield from the Central Marshes of his home. My sincere thanks to Danny Jenkins for moving us past the three-quarters mark to our own marsh goal!

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Collapse of the marsh ecosystems of southern Iraq after 1991 forced hundreds of thousands of people into urban slums, and led to contamination of the remaining water supply. We will establish three test beds to see whether brackish water returned from oil drilling and refining can be used to construct new salt marshes. These will filter water, provide forage for livestock, create habitat for fish nurseries, and give new economic opportunities.
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