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A woman is navigating on a Mashoof (traditional wooden boat made in the Iraqi Marshes) carrying reeds along the waters of the Hammar Marsh. In 2016, the marshes were placed on UNESCO's list of world heritage sites. But the region's unique biosphere, its ancestral culture and its economic balance, which rests on fishing, buffalo farming and the cutting and gathering of reeds, are once again in danger of disappearing due to the recent drought in the region. Iraq A woman is harvesting reeds inside the swamps of the Hammar Marsh. After cutting the reed, the stalks are gathered into bundles of 1.2 meters length. Shaking and combing them out cleans them from the residues of leaves and plants as well as from too short stalks. Hammar Marsh. Iraq