- Supporting land ecosystems through action
Al-Maarif University College is committed to providing a high-quality natural environment across all of its campuses, this includes maintaining open spaces. Al-Maarif University College’s green areas and open spaces
are actively maintained by contracted service providers whose
responsibilities include:
- Providing and maintaining a planting register with plants and tree details (botanical name, planting date, common name, and location).
- Removing weeds.
- Providing maintenance to improve tree health and vigor, the safety of campus users, and/or removal of vegetation that is impacting the grounds environment.
- Tree maintenance and pruning (arborist service).
- Ensuring that plants can take available nutrients to maintain healthy plant conditions.
- Maintain irrigation systems and plant watering.
- Branch and dead leaf removal from tufted plants.
- Applying mulch to the surface of garden beds.
- Defining specified plants and heritage zones that shall be planted with appropriate indigenous species only.
- Supporting land ecosystems through education
Al-Maarif University College researchers are collaborating with Al-Ramadi Water office to undertake a contaminant risk assessment for each environmentally sensitive site based on existing management plans, historical sediment and water quality data, and maps of surrounding land use. The project aims to identify sites that are at the greatest risk from contamination which is a priority for contaminant screening using novel and traditional methods and make recommendations to protect high-risk environmentally sensitive sites.
