The Department of Ecology at the College of Science at the University of Basra organized a seminar on the application of the Biodiversity Intactness Index to assess the status of the aquatic environment in the eastern Hammar Marsh.

This session, in which graduate student/master's student Israa Aziz Muhammad lectured, aims to know the level of biodiversity safety of the fish population in the eastern Hammar Marsh and a group of other environmental indicators for the current study and compare them with previous studies.

The study addressed the application of a computational program that was prepared and used to calculate environmental indicators.

The study recommended applying the index to the rest of the Iraqi marshes to determine the level of biodiversity safety in them and enhance environmental protection measures.