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Baghdad, Iraq, 20 April 2023- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Iraq and Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) signed an agreement for a project to protect Iraq’s southern Marshlands earlier this month, with a CAD 5 million (approximately US$ 3.7 million) contribution to increase biodiversity protection and people resilience in face of climate change. The project will be implemented under the leadership of the Center for Restoration of Iraqi Marshes & Wetlands (CRIMW) at the Ministry of Water Resources of Iraq.