With feelings full of joy and pleasure, the family of the Department of Ecology at the College of Science at the University of Basra extends its warmest congratulations and blessings to Dr. Anfas Nima Akash on the occasion of obtaining a PhD from the Department of Fish and Marine Resources at the College of Agriculture at the University of Basra for the thesis tagged "Biodiversity of large invertebrates in the Karma Ali River and the Shatt Canal Basra in the Basra Governorate, southern Iraq.