The Department of Geography and Geographic Information Systems at the College of Arts at the University of Basrah organized a scientific seminar entitled Climatic data and their impact on the environmental and urban system of Basra Governorate and the possibility of adapting them.

The seminar, which was moderated by Assistant Professor Dr. Osama Ismail al-Rashed and in which both ( Professor Dr. Ahmed Jassim Al-Hassan and assistant professor Dr. Sorour Abdul Amir) participated in a research paper entitled acid rain indicators in Basra governorate. As for Assistant Professor Dr. Hala Mahmoud shaker, she participated in a research paper entitled The role of climate changes in the presence, density and refraction of wildlife species and ranks in southern Iraq. On the other hand, teacher Dr. Ibtihal Shaker Majid participated in a research paper entitled Climate changes and their impact on transitional diseases in Basra governorate. The teacher, Dr. Khuloud Kazem Khalaf, and the teacher, Dr. Nadia Nouri, discussed climate change and its impact on the availability of water in Basra governorate. As for the teacher Dr. Ahmed Ghazi Meften and the teacher Dr. Suad Abdullah, they participated in a research paper entitled Climate Change and its impact on water availability in Basra governorate. The teacher, Dr. Zeinab Mazban, and the teacher, Dr. Firas Sami, focused on the impact of temperatures on traffic accidents in the Basra governorate.

The seminar aims to clarify the most important climatic data affecting the presence and density of species of snakes in the Iraqi environment (southern Iraq), and what was recorded for the first time with regard to the previously recorded species.

The seminar concluded that it is necessary to provide material and moral requirements for field scientific research tools to study wildlife, as it needs devices (thermal cameras) and surveillance aircraft for this type of nocturnal living.