The Marine Sciences Center at the University of Basrah has issued a book on biodiversity in the wetlands of Basrah under the supervision and printing of Dar Al-Kutub Directorate for Printing and Publishing
The book included a scientific field study as a follow-up to the project of restoring the marshes after 2003 (an overview), which was prepared by Dr. Malik Hassan Ali, Dr. Salman Daoud Salman, Dr. Nader Abd Salman, Dr. Huda Kazem Ahmed, and the instructor Hanaa Hussein Muhammad
The book included eleven chapters that dealt with the changes that occurred in the number and density of the different types of organisms that inhabit the wetland environment of Shatt Al-Arab River, the marshes and other water bodies in Basrah, the disappearance of some species and the emergence of other invasive or exotic species and the environmental changes that occurred after 2003 as a result of the adoption of the project to rehabilitate and fill the marshes of southern Iraq, which were damaged by draining operations during the eighties of the last century. As well as valuable information about the marine environment and aquatic life such as fungi, diatoms, plants, zooplankton, worms, crustaceans, mollusks, fish, birds, turtles and mammals
