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    This page features the latest news and articles on the Tigris-Euphrates basin. For a list of Save the Tigris activities, please click here.
    28May
    Flooding the Cradle of Civilization: Campaign Against the Ilisu Dam

    By Johanna L. Rivera Last year around this time I was in a town called Hasankeyf located along the Tigris River in the Batman Province in Turkey. The…

    22May
    Marsh Arabs protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf

    Cradle of Civilization at Risk of Desertification: Tigris Declaration sent to UN Hasankeyf, Turkey, May 22, 2012 “We have come from Iraq to speak, because no one came…

    29Mar
    Launch of petition to save World Heritage in Mesopotamia threatened by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River

    Launch of petition to save World Heritage in Mesopotamia threatened by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River Today a worldwide petition addressed to the UNESCO World Heritage…