Take a look at these photos. You might be forgiven for not knowing they were taken in Iraq, a country where the news headlines are rarely happy ones.

Kani Shok Primary Schoolgirls with the nest boxes they made. Shoxan Babarasul & Mariwan Qadir (Nature Iraq)
Kani Shok Primary Schoolgirls with the nest boxes they made. Shoxan Babarasul & Mariwan Qadir (Nature Iraq)
Zewe Primary School student putting up a nest box.Shoxan Babarasul & Mariwan Qadir  (Nature Iraq)
Zewe Primary School student putting up a nest box.Shoxan Babarasul & Mariwan Qadir (Nature Iraq)
These are Iraqi kids, from...

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