In the clear warm waters of the Gulf, scientists in 2017 confirmed for the first time that killer whales were present in waters off Iran. A year earlier, Iraq’s first coral reef was found and in 2018 scientists published a study confirming that dugongs were thriving in the Gulf, migrating in herds of up to 500. “None of the governments in the Gulf is working together which is really needed because you can’t control the environment without collaboration” The fact that Gulf waters can have twice the salinities as regular oceans – due in part to global warming and desalination – and host some of …