Garden of Eden safe as Iraq national park

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2928, 2013, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The "Garden of Eden" has been saved, even as chaos grows all around. Last week, amid a wave of bombings on the streets of Baghdad, Iraq's Council of Ministers found time to approve the creation of the country's first national park--the centerpiece of a remarkable restoration of the Mesopotamian marshes in the south of the country. This vast wetland of reed beds and waterways, home of the Ma'dan Marsh Arabs, is widely held to be the home of the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden, the paradise where Adam and Eve were created and from which they were subsequently expelled.