The master's thesis at the College of Education for Humanities, University of Basra, discussed (Environmental Risks and Their Impact on the Development of Livestock in Dhi Qar Governorate)
The thesis presented by the student Abbas Khayon Wark Al-Saeedi aims to study the impact of environmental risks in Dhi Qar Governorate on the development of livestock of all kinds, cows, sheep, buffaloes, goats and camels, and on fish farming projects and their fisheries in marshes and rivers. The thesis included a study of natural risks, human risks, life risks and epidemics on livestock species, their geographical distribution and the quantities of their meat and milk production, as well as the effects of these risks on fish species and the quantities of their production produced from farms raised in earthen ponds and floating cages. The study also included the geographical capabilities for managing environmental risks and developing livestock. The study reached several results, including the negative impact of various life risks represented by diseases and epidemics on livestock in terms of quantity and quality, the impact of urban sprawl on pastoral lands, which are a source of types of plants that animals depend on for their food, and the variation in the number of livestock in The study area, which has a population of 1,296,969 heads in 2023, if the number of sheep ranked first, which amounted to 772,928 heads, and camels represented the lowest rank with 48,273 heads, as well as the results of the decline in the quantity of fish production and the disappearance of some of its species, such as brown and carp, and the emergence of other species such as tilapia and shank. The study showed a decline in the quantities of livestock meat production in 2023 to reach (7,595.56) tons/year and a decline in the quantity of its milk production, which amounted to (79,861.9) tons/year
