A team from the College of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Basra planted more than a hundred mangrove seedlings on the coast of Shatt al-Basra in Khor al-Zubair.
Professor Dr. Safaa Al-Asadi, Head of the Geography Department at the college, said that this initiative came under the guidance of the Dean of the College, Professor Dr. Nidaa Muhammad Baqir, within the framework of community service and with the participation of the students of the second stage, to plant mangrove trees in coordination with the mangrove nursery in Basra Governorate, which is supported by the World Food Program and the Ministry of Environment. And local government.
Al-Asadi added that mangrove trees contribute effectively to protecting and improving the environment and reducing climate change, due to their major role in absorbing and storing carbon to an extent more than fifty times that of other trees, and their high ability to withstand water salinity of up to 90 parts per thousand, for the purpose of stabilizing the soil and providing a natural shelter. For fish and marine organisms.
