On the banks of Iraq's Tigris River, Haidar Kazem mourned 300 tonnes of the fish he had carefully raised in ponds wiped out by a flood of polluted water.
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A fisherman on Iraq's receding marshes that straddle the border with Iran
Gas flares at an oil refinery near the Huwaizah marshes
A marsh fisherman with his catch
Environmental activists meet with indigenous people in Iraq's receding Huwaizah marshlands
Environmental activist Murtada al-Janubi: 'Our region is already teeming with oilfields'
Plans to drill for oil in the protected Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq have galvanised villagers and activists determined to save the m…