Post by Reticulatus on Mar 23, 2014 9:00:35 GMT 5
CROCODILES IN IRAQ
I was flabbergasted to see an article in the front page of Aharqalawsat the most popular newspaper in the Middle East on Tuesday 12th, of July 2011. It seems the story was so great that it was repeated in the back page of the same journal.
Duhok zoo acquired two young crocodiles each was 125 cm long from Africa paying sixteen hundred US Dollars for the couple. It seems one died immediately on arrival and the other disappeared a week ago. The zoo management fails to report the disappearance of the second crocodile. The poor creature ended up in a building site in the center of the city and was killed immediately by a laborer. He told the reporter that he was about to be swallowed by the wild crocodile he had to fight and kill him. He thought he will be a celebrity in a country full of celebrities. The director of the Zoo was crossed because he has no more crocodiles in his miserable zoo.
This poor young croc was killed savagely by an ignorant man after disappeared from a zoo which obviously very badly managed. A young crocodile imported from a far away land to Kurdistan was brutally killed for no reason
On August 15th 2011 the Azzaman Daily reported that crocodiles in the Euphrates are feeding on dead human bodies. It appears that the Ministry of Environment in Baghdad had sent a mission led by Ali Allami to Diwaniah in order to investigate about this phenomenon as crocodiles have never been recorded in the Iraqi river yet last Tuesday police killed a crocodile in a stretch of the river near Diwaniah. No details of the condition of the animal were given and the media reported that a recreation park in Diwaniah had imported some young crocodiles from Egypt without licenses and these had escaped into the river. Again, as in the case in Duhock, the park authorities did not inform the authorities. The presence of the animals in this region of the Euphrates was discovered when police were searching for the bodies of people killed by kidnappers or terrorists, Although the criminals had confessed and given the police details of the location where they had thrown the bodies of their victims into the river all searches by the police for the victims had proved fruitless. Local people began to talk about crocodiles taking the bodies of the victims but idea was dismissed until the police killed the first crocodile in the Euphrates last Tuesday.
It is obvious that we need to stringently enforce laws on importation of live animals into the country, whether wild or domestic species, to safeguard the environment. However in Iraq we already have very large ‘crocodiles’ (Homo sapiens ‘crocodilius’) and no one dares to approach these
www.talibelam.com/2011/08/crocodils-in-iraq.html
Directorate of Environment in Al Diwaniyah Province said on Sunday that a big crocodile appeared in Al Diwaniyah River and that for the first time which spread fear among young men who went to the river to swim.
Director of Al Diwaniyah Environment Directorate Haidar Aanaj told Alsumarianews that for the first time in the history of Al Diwaniyah a big crocodile was seen in the river. To that he also added that the environment conditions of Al DIwaniyah are not convenient for the presence of such a big fierce amphibian.
Aannaj called young men to stay away from swimming in the river water before getting precise information about this issue.
A big number of young men are heading to Diwaniyah River to swim because of the high temperature levels and because electricity is being cut off for long periods.
Hassanen Jalil a 19 years old young man told Alsumarianews, eyewitnesses who swim with us on a daily basis in the river said that they saw two big crocodiles in the river which spread fears among us and prevented us from swimming in the river.
'It seems that the Ministry of Electricity made an agreement with those two crocodiles to prevent us from swimming in the river after knowing that we swing to flee the high temperatures and the ongoing shortage in electricity' said Majed Abdullah another young man.
However, other citizens said that those two crocodiles might have fled from the personal zoos of some rich people who like to own fierce animals in their properties.
Al Diwaniyah River is one of Euphrates river ramifications; it enters Diwaniah after passing by Hella Province and heads afterwards to Muthna. The river water level decreased considerably during the last few years given the high rate of evaporation and because Turkey and Syria are taking larger quantities of water than their allocated part which affects Iraq's share thereof.
It is to be noted that workers in Duhok Province killed in July 11 a crocodile that fled from Duhok Public Zoo since more than two years.
www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News...yah-River.html
I was flabbergasted to see an article in the front page of Aharqalawsat the most popular newspaper in the Middle East on Tuesday 12th, of July 2011. It seems the story was so great that it was repeated in the back page of the same journal.
Duhok zoo acquired two young crocodiles each was 125 cm long from Africa paying sixteen hundred US Dollars for the couple. It seems one died immediately on arrival and the other disappeared a week ago. The zoo management fails to report the disappearance of the second crocodile. The poor creature ended up in a building site in the center of the city and was killed immediately by a laborer. He told the reporter that he was about to be swallowed by the wild crocodile he had to fight and kill him. He thought he will be a celebrity in a country full of celebrities. The director of the Zoo was crossed because he has no more crocodiles in his miserable zoo.
This poor young croc was killed savagely by an ignorant man after disappeared from a zoo which obviously very badly managed. A young crocodile imported from a far away land to Kurdistan was brutally killed for no reason
On August 15th 2011 the Azzaman Daily reported that crocodiles in the Euphrates are feeding on dead human bodies. It appears that the Ministry of Environment in Baghdad had sent a mission led by Ali Allami to Diwaniah in order to investigate about this phenomenon as crocodiles have never been recorded in the Iraqi river yet last Tuesday police killed a crocodile in a stretch of the river near Diwaniah. No details of the condition of the animal were given and the media reported that a recreation park in Diwaniah had imported some young crocodiles from Egypt without licenses and these had escaped into the river. Again, as in the case in Duhock, the park authorities did not inform the authorities. The presence of the animals in this region of the Euphrates was discovered when police were searching for the bodies of people killed by kidnappers or terrorists, Although the criminals had confessed and given the police details of the location where they had thrown the bodies of their victims into the river all searches by the police for the victims had proved fruitless. Local people began to talk about crocodiles taking the bodies of the victims but idea was dismissed until the police killed the first crocodile in the Euphrates last Tuesday.
It is obvious that we need to stringently enforce laws on importation of live animals into the country, whether wild or domestic species, to safeguard the environment. However in Iraq we already have very large ‘crocodiles’ (Homo sapiens ‘crocodilius’) and no one dares to approach these
www.talibelam.com/2011/08/crocodils-in-iraq.html
Directorate of Environment in Al Diwaniyah Province said on Sunday that a big crocodile appeared in Al Diwaniyah River and that for the first time which spread fear among young men who went to the river to swim.
Director of Al Diwaniyah Environment Directorate Haidar Aanaj told Alsumarianews that for the first time in the history of Al Diwaniyah a big crocodile was seen in the river. To that he also added that the environment conditions of Al DIwaniyah are not convenient for the presence of such a big fierce amphibian.
Aannaj called young men to stay away from swimming in the river water before getting precise information about this issue.
A big number of young men are heading to Diwaniyah River to swim because of the high temperature levels and because electricity is being cut off for long periods.
Hassanen Jalil a 19 years old young man told Alsumarianews, eyewitnesses who swim with us on a daily basis in the river said that they saw two big crocodiles in the river which spread fears among us and prevented us from swimming in the river.
'It seems that the Ministry of Electricity made an agreement with those two crocodiles to prevent us from swimming in the river after knowing that we swing to flee the high temperatures and the ongoing shortage in electricity' said Majed Abdullah another young man.
However, other citizens said that those two crocodiles might have fled from the personal zoos of some rich people who like to own fierce animals in their properties.
Al Diwaniyah River is one of Euphrates river ramifications; it enters Diwaniah after passing by Hella Province and heads afterwards to Muthna. The river water level decreased considerably during the last few years given the high rate of evaporation and because Turkey and Syria are taking larger quantities of water than their allocated part which affects Iraq's share thereof.
It is to be noted that workers in Duhok Province killed in July 11 a crocodile that fled from Duhok Public Zoo since more than two years.
www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News...yah-River.html
