"In spite of the war, good things are happening," says Jonathan Trouern-Trend. "Thirty-five environmental organizations are registered in Iraq now, working together — groups like Greenpeace of Kurdistan and the Iraq Nature Conservation Association."
In the first section of Replay, our news programme on Spotlight Audio, Romie Singh explains how recent local elections in Iraq may give clues to the country's future.
The boom in Baghdad is not always that of exploding bombs. It's also the sound of the city being rebuilt as Iraqis who had left return. The United Nations expects that 500,000 Iraqis will come home this year from Jordan and Syria.
