Brief info
Jassim Al-Asadi, the Managing Director of the Chibaish office of Nature Iraq, born in the depths of the central marshes of the Southern Iraq in 1957, with a passion for nature since his childhood and a close friend to the local communities. He has been an engineer in the field of water resources and techniques of pumping stations for more than 30 years with government departments in the central and southern Iraq. At Nature Iraq, he was a team leader of Socio-Economic surveys in more than 10 projects and director of field projects in different areas. Representative of the work of NGOs of Iraq in Secretariat of the Ramsar in Switzerland since 2009. He has had many activities in the field of advocacy for water for the Marshes and the Iraqi Wetlands from 2008-2015, such as the Tigris Flotilla 2012-2013 and Dry lakes in Turkey in 2013. He participated in the Management Plan for the Hawizeh Marsh Ramsar Site, Iraq in 2008 and the Management Plan for the Central Marshes National Park between 2006-2010. He wa is
He has worked to save the Hammar Marshes and Central Marshes during the drought between 2008-2010 through proposing suitable solutions and undertaking activities with the locals and stakeholders. Throughout the last twelve years, He participated in a number of international meetings and conferences about the Iraqi wetlands held in Switzerland, Italy, Jordan,Turkey, Singapore and Egypt additional to the different national meetings and conferences for water and marsh issues. He also participated in preparing studies and surveys about the green villages and the Strategic Plan for the Wetlands, the architectural sites in South of Iraq. He has an interest in writing poetry and playing chess. His next step is establishing the Water Keeper project in Southern Iraq.