Trawling Iraq's threatened marshes to collect plastic waste / 32AH2LL
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France's ambassador to Iraq Eric Chevallier and members of a delegation from the embassy tour southern Iraq's marshes of Chibayish during the launch of an environmental clean up boat project sponsored by the French embassy in the southern Iraqi province of Dhi Qar. Iraq's vast swamplands are the reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, but the waterways are drying out and becoming so clogged with waste their very existence is at risk, activists warn. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES