Eco-tourism development in Iraq

Abstract

Iraq has the ingredients for eco-tourism and there is the potential for sustainable development of this sector is invested in it: 2 - There is a natural and human potential can be invested for the development of eco-tourism, which will enable us to preserve the environment and its beauty and sustain the development of natural potential to create our environmental places possess the ability to attract tourists and stability of psychological addition to the availability of eco-tourism economic returns sector.3 - The environmental capabilities available in Iraq make him areas of tourist attraction will contribute to the development of the overall economy of the country, there are lakes that are spread in Iraq as Lake (Dokan and Derbandikhan in northern Iraq and waterfalls on all my own in the province of Nineveh and Lake Thar and Razaza and Lake Sawa) and there are large areas of the marshes in southern Iraq, a station for more than 400 species of birds.And provide enriching the natural environment which is including the following factors:1 - the diversity of plant and animal life.2 - biodiversity.3 - Climate diversity.A - variation in rainfall.B - the contrast in temperatures.4 - the diversity of the soil.5 - geographic and topographic diversity