Civil liability of environmental damage resulting from industrial animal husbandry

The requirements for preserving public order and the public interest is to protect the environment, because the environment is a right of future generations and protecting it is a duty for this generation. Protecting the environment falls on the responsibility of the state and individuals together. It is the duty of individuals not to harm or pollute the environment, whether with chemicals or substances. Natural, but in unnatural proportions or in excess of the natural limit, and one of the forms of damage to the environment is the damage resulting from the industrial breeding of animals, such as that resulting from the remnants of their waste, such as odors, or that resulting from slaughterhouses of animal skins, which leads to the accumulation of insects, epidemics, and other things, in addition to the resulting sound pollution. Regarding animal sounds, all these pollutants and forms of damage to the environment are subject to the rules of civil liability, and its legal basis varies depending on the type of damage.Tort liability results from the negligence of livestock owners in applying environmental cleanliness conditions. There is liability on the basis of damage, which is subject to proof to the contrary, as the defendant can prove the opposite and be exempted from liability. The Iraqi legislator in Civil Law No. (40) of 1951 took this type of Liability for environmental damage. The burden of proving the damage falls on the defendant,