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US Geological Survey (January 2004)
Eden's Fall From Grace

The Independent (January 5, 2004)
A birdsong that proves water is bringing Marsh Arabs' world back to life
by Robert Fisk
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article75816.ece

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (January 12, 2004)
IRAQ: Flooding leaves thousands homeless

United Kingdom Department for International Development (January 12, 2004)
Update on Iraq Funding for 2003

The Asahi Shimbun (January 22,2004)
Iraq's wetlands in need

The Miami Herald (January 22, 2004)
Everglades activists turn their sights to Iraq marsh restoration by Coralie Carlson

Environmental News Network (January 23, 2004)
Everglades activists turn their eyes to Iraq marsh restoration by Coralie Carlson

National Public Radio Morning Edition (January 24, 2004)
New Hope for Iraq's Marsh Arabs by Anne Garrels
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1605026

Seattle Times (January 30, 2004)
Water and life slowly return to the vast wetlands of Iraq by Hal Bernton
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/nation-world/insideiraq/january30.html

Hack Writers (February 2004)
Can Japan Rescue the Garden of Eden? by JT Brown
http://www.hackwriters.com/Eden.htm

NASA Earth Observatory (February 8, 2004)
Annual Floods Return to Iraq
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16450

Iraqi Press Monitor (February 10, 2004)
Italians first to start on marsh redevelopment
http://www.iwpr.net/archive/ipm/ipm_012.html

Iraqi Press Monitor (February 12 2004)
Marsh redevelopment progressing
http://www.iwpr.net/archive/ipm/ipm_014.html

New York Times (February 21, 2004)
Marshes a Vengeful Hussein Drained Stir Again by Edward Wong
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20611F935590C728EDDAB0894DC404482

New York Times (February 23, 2004)
Louisiana's Wetlands by Governor Kathleen Blanco
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E4DB113CF93BA15751C0A9629C8B63

New York Times (February 23, 2004)
Louisiana's Wetlands letter from Governor Babineux Blanco
http://www.americaswetland.com/article.cfm?id=109&cateid=3&pageid=3&cid=18

National Wildlife Federation (February 2004)
Resurrecting Eden by Denis Gray
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?articleId=883&issueId=66

US House of Representatives International Relations Committee (February 24, 2004)
United States and the Iraqi Marshlands: An Environmental Response
http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/108/92186.pdf

Associated Press (February 24, 2004)
Congress urged to help pay for restoring Iraq marshlands by John Helprinb
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=64818

Washington File (February 26, 2004)
Partial Restoration of Iraqi Marshlands May Be Feasible by David Shelby
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/pressreleases/20040226_marsh_restoration.html

National Wetlands Newsletter (March 2004)
Eden Again: Restoring Iraq's Mesopotamian Marshlands by Azzam and Suzie Alwash
http://www2.eli.org/nwn/nwnarchive/26-02articles.cfm

Indigo (March 2004)
Water voor de hof van Eden door Matthijs Blonk
http://www.thijs.scarlet.nl/paginas/Water.htm

International Forum on Partnerships for Sustainable Development (March 5, 2004)

U.S. House of Representatives (March 18, 2004)
Pelosi Remarks on Republican Iraq Resolution
http://democraticleader.house.gov/press/articles.cfm?pressReleaseID=500

Relief Web Mercy Corps (March 18, 2004)
Re-flooding of Iraq's wetlands offers new hope to Marsh Arabs by Cassandra Nelson -

The Guardian (March 18, 2004)
Marsh Arabs look to our man in the middle by Rory McCarthy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1171988,00.html

Mercy Corps (March 18, 2004)
Re-flooding of Iraq's wetlands offers new hope to Marsh Arabs by Cassandra Nelson

Earth Watch Radio (March 19, 2004)
Wetland in the Sand: scientists try to save what's left of a wetland in the deserts of Iraq.
by Diane Pansky
http://ewradio.org/program.aspx?ProgramID=3693

International Medical Corps (March 19, 2004)
Marsh Arabs - A healthy future in an ancient culture by Tanya Habjouqa
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/45080e1459f1dd4e49256e5f0010cb1a?OpenDocument

Washington File (March 22, 2004)
Iraqi Marsh Arabs Discuss Future of Wetlands by David Shelby
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/pressreleases/20040322_marsh_arabs.html

US Agency for International Development (April 2004)
USAID Accomplishments: Marshlands
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/accomplishments/marsh.html

US Agency for International Development (April 2004)
Iraq Marshlands Restoration Program
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/pdf/iraq_marshlands.pdf

Carnegie Council on Ethics and international Relations (April 2004)
Twilight People: Iraq's Marsh Inhabitants
by Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi and Stuart M. Leiderman
http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/4458

Australia Broadcasting Company (April 13, 2004)
Return to Eden - The Marsh People of Iraq by Jane Hutcheon
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2004/s1083768.htm

The National (April 14, 2004)
The Marsh Arabs by Margaret Evans
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/iraq/marsharabs.html

Interpress News Service Agency (April 21, 2004)
No Earth Day Fete for Iraq by Stephen Leahy
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23416

UN Sustainable Partnerships (April 21, 2004)

Politics Louisiana (April 21, 2004)
Landrieu Blasts Bush for Iraqi Wetland Funding-by Brian Welsh
http://www.politicsla.com/articles/2004/April/042204_bush_blast.htm

Journeyman Pictures (April 21, 2004)
Iraq's Marsh Arabs (transcript of video)
http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=14725

Secolo d'Italia (April 22, 2004)
Matteolo: Saddam's Hell on Earth will be Transformed into a Terrestrial Paradise

Environmental News Network (April 22, 2004)
Many of Iraq's Marsh Arabs are reluctant to go back to their ancient lifestyle by
Scheherezade Faramarzi

KCRW To the Point (April 22 2004)
War and the Environment by Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=tp&air_date=4/22/04&tmplt_type=show

Associated Press (April 27, 2004)
Iraq's Marsh Arabs reluctant to go back to ancient lifestyle by Sheherazade Faramarzi
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=66498

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (April 24, 2004)
A new paradise for Iraq's 'Marsh Arabs'

Parade Magazine (April 25, 2004)
What These Ancient Places CanTeach Us Now by Bruce Feiler
http://archive.parade.com/2004/0425/0425_ancient_places.html

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (April 27, 2004)
IRAQ: Special on efforts to restore Marshlands

New York Times (April 30, 2004)
Review of Amer Alwan's film "Zaman, Man from the Reeds"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10916FD3C590C738FDDAD0894DC404482

Australian Ministry of Trade (April 30, 2004)
Speech to the Rebuilding Iraq Subcontracting Conference - Building Foundations for Prosperity by Mark Vaile
http://www.trademinister.gov.au/speeches/2004/040430_rebuilding_iraq.html

Harvard University Graduate School Design (May 2004)
Mesopotamian Marshes and Modern Development Conference
http://dev.gsd.harvard.edu/academic/la/mesomarshes.html

Japan Today (May 2, 2004)
Japan to help restore Iraq marsh

UN Wire (May 3, 2004)
Japan To Help Fund UNEP Marshland Project In Iraq

Coalition Provisional Authority (May 10, 2004)
Ambassador Bremer and Iraq's Minister of Water Resources Announce Major Irrigation Project as Ministry Takes Final Step Toward Sovereignty
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6130-0.html?forumID=50&threadID=22354&start=0

Coalition Provisional Authority (May 10, 2004)
Ministry of Water Resources Assumes Full Sovereignty by Joe Pally
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/pressreleases/20040510_water.html

Canadian International Development Agency (May 14, 2004)
Canada helps restore Mesopotamian Marshlands in southern Iraq
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/0/7d36bef54a1dc64a85256e94005315d0?OpenDocument

University of Waterloo (May 14, 2004)
Iraq Marshland Restoration
http://www.newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=4078

Terra Daily (May 15, 2004)
Canada gives three million dollars to Iraq's Marsh Arabs
http://www.terradaily.com/2004/040514223254.pfl6jh26.html

Mercy Corps (May 24, 2004)
Re-flooding of Iraq's Wetlands Offers New Hope to the Marsh Arabs by Cassandra
Nelson

Mountainfilm Telluride (May 29, 2004)
Mountainfilm Welcomes Dr. Azzam Alwash, Champion of the Marsh Arabs

Polish Article
http://levis.sggw.waw.pl/~ozw1/ZintegrowGospWod/ZintegrowanagospwodOZW03/eufrat/Eden.htm

Danish Article (Medico undated)
EDEN AGAIN
Nahost braucht eine gerechtere Verteilung des Wassers
http://www.medico.de/rundschr/rs-2-03/rs203-nahost.htm

Dutch Article
http://www.oneway.nl/nieuws_artikel.php?nieuwsID=9997

ProNatura prize
http://www.cartadellaterra.it/premioterra/premio03/body_fotopremio.html

Plans for a Rebuilt Iraq
http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu/issues/spring04/5-17/news.html

Saudi Aramco World (May 2004)
Reviving Eden by Pat Twair photographs by Dana Smillie
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200403/reviving.eden.htm

Toronto Star (July 4, 2004)
With Water Comes Hope by Olivia Ward

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