Current view: Text account
Site description (1994 baseline):
Site location and context
An isolated haur c.5 km north of the River Euphrates and c.80 km west-north-west of Nasiriya, fed by floodwater from the Euphrates.
The site was listed as a wetland of international importance by Carp (1980), and was considered by Scott and Carp (1982) to be possibly of great importance for wintering waterbirds, but there is no specific ornithological information available.
Non-bird biodiversity: No information available to BirdLife International.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
No conservation measures are known to have been taken. The site may have suffered major habitat degradation or destruction following the decline in the flow of the Euphrates since the 1970s (see site 039) but there is no other information on current threats and no conservation measures are known to have been proposed.
Information compiled by Dr D. A. Scott and D. J. Brooks, reviewed by Dr Khalid Y. Al-Dabbagh and Dr Hanna Y. Siman.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Haur Lafta (Iraq). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/haur-lafta-iba-iraq on 27/12/2024.
