Conservation of Biodiversity in Central Zagros Landscape Project
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No Title Page 1 The Street Theater "To save Zagros" received public applause______3 2 The " Avaye Zagros" Frog-Title of the theater- in Choghakhor______5 3 The GIS workshop for the staffs of the project was held______5 4 The first training workshop on sustainable aquaculture was held in Naghan-Buldaji 5 5 The Teachers' training workshop titled " The Green Government & Environment" 5 was held______6 Visiting the success sample of the surveying project on local and medical herbs of 5 Dezak______7 Kids' Motto on Clean Earth Day______6 8 Zagros Birds' documentary was broadcasted on the International Day of Biodiversity______7 9 " The Climate Change" Conference was held with the technical support of Zagros 7 Project______10 The natural environment's deputy 's field visit to Dena-Vanak______7 11 The field visit of Kohgiloye and Bouyer Ahmad's Governor From Dena-Vanak____ 8 12 The first workshop of " Developing the national document on the CZM Design 8 System" was held______13 Director General of DoEs' request to diminish Zagros' Threats______9 14 50 per cent decrease in consumption of water, fertilizers and chemical pesticides In Kor-Kamfirouz______9 15 " The planting of endangered species" project began in Dena-Vanak______10 16 6 LPCs' meetings in 4 PMAs of Zagros Project______10 17 The workshop of " Sustainable Strategies' Development" was held in Shiraz______11
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Simultaneously with the Week of Environment and in 4 Provinces
The Street Theater "Save Zagros" received public applause
The street theater" Save Zagros" by the help of the Central Zagros on Wednesday and Thursday at Conservation of Biodiversity in the Central Zagros Tahlijan Park, Shahrekord. Conservation Zone Project's secretariat was started on 11th June 2014 and ended three days later. It Some of the attendees in the closing ceremony included Shirin Abolghasemi, The received the public applause. National Project Manager (NPM), After the public announce in Saeed Yusef Pour, Chaharmahal and the last winter, more than a Bakhtiari General Director of hundred works were sent to Department of Environment, some of the secretariat of the festival the State Organizations' directors in Shahrekord, 26 of which and local communities' were there to be reviewed. representatives. These works that were from Kordestan, Isfahan, Gilan, In her remarks Ms. Abolghasemi Khozestan, and Chahar Mahal stated that these kinds of activities have an important effect on the & Bakhtiari Provinces were reviewed by the Jury in 5 public and asked local communities days. Eight works were to decrease the human contribution to the non-sustainable use of natural selected finally. resources. Eight selected theaters Finally, the first prize went to Kazem performed by the aim of attracting public attention to the problems of Heidari, the script writer of " They
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Will Save Zagros", Soran Hosseini, and Behzad from Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiari Province. The jury Torabian received the 2nd and 3rd prize, also appreciated Maryam Kazemi, Seyed Hamed respectively for " Avay-E- Zagros" and " I want a Hosseini, Ali Torabian and Danial Salehi as the squirrel". teenage actors.
At last, the jury selected four works as the best ones in the four Pilot Areas which are in Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiari ( Naghan-Boldaji), Isfahan ( Dena-Vanak), Fars (Kor- Kamfirooz) and Kohgilooye and Boyer Ahmad ( Western Dena) of the Zagros project as:
1. " They will save Zagros" directed by Kazem Heidari from Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiari 2. " Avay-E- Zagros" by Sooran Hosseini 3. " Dirty Gold" by Masood Ebrahimi From Isfahan 4. The story of Pataq by Barz"by Mahmood
Farzi Nezhad from Gilan For the best directors, the jury awarded Mas'oud
Ebrahimi, from Isfahan, for " The dirty Gold", and " The story of Pataq" by Mahmood Farzi Nezhad from The NPM appreciated the Chahar Mahal & Gilan, and " Avaye Zagros" directed by Soran Bakhtiari's DoE, Islamic Cultural Organization and Hosseini From Kordistan gained the 2nd and 3rd awards respectively.
Municipality of Shahrekord for their great contributions in holding the theater festival.
The awards for the best actors and actresses without being prioritized went to Mohsen Asadi, Hussein Amiri, and Masoud Ebrahimi, From Isfahan, Khabat Fathi from Kordestan, Hadis Nikro and Manizhe Movahed from Gilan, and Sakine Sadeghi
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The " Avaye Zagros" Frog-Title of the The first training workshop on sustainable theater- in Choghakhor aquaculture was held in Naghan-Buldaji
In order to have the training activities of the Zagros Project fulfilled as planned, the first initiative workshop on trout's farming in Jozestan Village was th held on June 19 . This training course was done by the joint cooperation of Zagros project and DAMOON NGO as the facilitators. The basic data on how to have as an aquaculture with the focus on
the conservation of biodiversity was taught to the By the end of the first Street Theater Festival on the local people. The unsustainable aquaculture and environment titled as " Save Zagros" and illegal fish farming on the banks of Karoon River are introducing the selected ones, " Avay-E- Zagros", counted as the main threats of Central Zagros directed by Sooran Hosseini from Kordestan Mountains. performed in Chokhakhord Wetland from Naghan- The Teachers' training workshop titled "The Boldaji Pilot Management Area. Green Government & Environment" was This theater was based on a creative idea that will held explain the Zagros' Threats from a frog that are According to the action plan and the capacity namely excessive use of waste, hunting, etc. The building confirmed by the Zagros Project in CZM in only character of this theater is a green frog that is 2014, the first Training Workshop specifically for in mourning of his fiancée as a result of the teachers was held in Kiar County. On June 13th, environmental pollution and he is depicting the approximately, twenty numbers of teachers from pollutions of Zagros and he will die himself for the Chehraz, Heidarabad, Chahar Taq, and Naghan same reason in the end. The theater which was gathered together in Shalamzar Conference room along with happiness and sadness was very located in The Educational Office to have a round welcomed by the local people. It was selected as table with the Zagros' Educational Expert. the 2nd best in the festival and Mr. Khabat Fathi, was awarded as the best actor. Visiting the success sample of the surveying project on local and medical herbs of Dezak The GIS workshop for the staffs of the project was held 35 women being trained in the vocational and technical training of medical herbs in Dooplan ans On April 1st, the Geographical Information System Gel Sefid area, accompanied by the head of the workshop was held for the Zagros project's Staffs. vocational training of Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, The trainer of this workshop was Dr. Ali Bali, the GIS trainers and experts in Kiar County, Navaye Ab & from DoE for 8 hours in 6 working days in Tehran Zagros and DAMOON NGOs visited the successful and Shahrekord. In this workshop, the GIS, Xtools, samples of medical and endemic herbsin Dezak. digit and zoning maps' software were taught. This visit was aimed at having the locals got familiar with the methods of planting and harvesting the
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endemic and endangered plants' species of Oath was signed by the students titled as "I will Sabzkooh. Meanwhile, the methods of sustainable keep the Earth Clean. livestock keeping were taught as well. This process is a joint activity done by the DAMOON Ngo and Zagros Project that can result in having a sustainable livelihood for the locals.
Kids' Motto on Clean Earth Day
In Isfahan, a training course was held for the elementary school students of three villages, in Dena-Vanak, PMA. In this training course, 44 students from Khaje Nasiredin in Khine Village, Shaheed Ahmadi in Roodabad and Khafr Villages focused on Zagros Biodiversity. In the end, some books from the collection of the Green Books titled as " Animals' Support", " The forest's Death", The environment for kids" as memorials to the students, and some posters to the schools.
nd On April 22 , the Global Clean Earth'd Day, local In Fars Province, there was a semi-compact period women and students in the four pilot management held for 500 number of high school, and elementary areas of the Zagros Project, had cleaned their students in Kor-Kamfirooz PMA which was mainly surroundings of any trashes. In Western Dena, focused on the area's environment and its threats. Kohgilooye and Boyer Ahmad, 50 elementary This was held by the help of the Zagros Project's students participated in the Solid Waste provincial office in Fars Province, Marvdasht Management aimed at the decrease in trash County's DoE, and Trainers of Anjomane Hayat E producing in Semroon Village. Some of the women Iran, in a 3-day period. in Dena County tried to collect the waste and trashes in Oaks' Forest located in Western Dena.
In Naghan-Buldaji, Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, 50 girl students from Hijab School of Sibak Village in Boldaji, took part in a field trip which ended in cleaning the Sibakl Spring. This was supported by Zagros Project, DoE of the Province, Broojen County, and Anjoomane Navaye Ab va Mohite Zagros NGO. At the end of this project, a symbolic
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Zagros Birds' documentary was broadcasted In this conference, there were some scientific on the International Day of Biodiversity papers presented either orally or in the format of a poster, some public speeches have been made. Care to note that different representatives from DoE, MoJA, Ministry of Power & Energy, and the relevant organizations participated in this conference which showed the importance of the climate changes all around the country. This conference was also supported by the UNDP representatives in Iran, and Gary Louis, spoke on the climate change, as well.
The natural environment's deputy 's field visit to Dena-Vanak On the 22nd of May, the International Day of Biodiversity, Zagros' Birds, a series of In late June, the documentaries, was started to be on air through Deputy of Natural the Mostanad Channel of IRIB. This is a 300-minute Resources of DoE had documentary which is broadcasted every Thursday a visit to the Pilot of at 11:00 PM to 11:30, a joint activity done by the Zagros Project in Zagros Project, Kian Art Institute and Mostanad Isfahan. Channel. This documentary is provided by the aim Dr. Ahmad Ali Keikha first paid a visit to the of making the culture of environment and raising Conversation Project of endangered Medical plants the public awareness of the Central Zagros In Jasoor Olia and got familiar with the way the biodiversities. It contains ten 30-minute episodes Dracocephalum Kotschyi Boiss are planted and which depicts the biological behavior of more than harvested. Later on, there was a joint meeting with 100 birds' species. one of the Nomads from Jafar Beigloo Tribe, and as "The Climate Change" Conference was held Dr. Keikha requested, the main biodiversity threats with the technical support of Zagros Project were stated y the Nomads' representatives.
"The climate change and towards a sustainable The destruction of Nomads' roads due to the future" conference was held in the Ministry of development of the cities, buildings, constructions power by the help of The Earth's Supporters' have caused the in time migration and the early Association, and the Zagros Project. This conference entrance of the nomads to the rangelands which was designed by the aim of analyzing the subject of will culminate in the excessive use of the climate change and its effect on different aspects of rangelands. life and environment. Since, climate change is caused by some of the challenges of Central Zagros Mountains; therefore, the Zagros Project was among the first supporters of this conference.
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The field visit UNDP in Iran was held on 22nd of July 2014 in DoE of of Kohgiloye Tehran. and Bouyer Farhang Ghasriani stated that: " Although, 16 Ahmad's provinces are to some extent involved in the Governor from ecosystem of Zagros, unfortunately as we are Dena-Vanak witnessing it is like other ecosystems, wetlands etc, on the verge of destruction. He warned: " Once, we had the diversities of species in Zagros, but now we The director General of Kohgiloye & Bouyer Ahmad are facing with a decrease in all kinds of species, has visited the Zagros pilot areas in late April, as and the threat of Zagros Oaks as they are drying. He well. Musa Khademi said: our industrial activities also mentioned:" All of us were not responsible should be in a way that won't be counted as a enough about conserving the area of Zagros threat to the environment. This is the responsibility Forests; all of our constructing activities are of all especially the local ones. He also talked little damaging Zagros. Any dams, roads, etc are about the Oaks' Dryness of the western forests: constructed; they resulted in Zagros destruction as "We should use all our strength to save the Zagros well. As Zagros' ecosystem is a complicated one, it Forests, which is not feasible unless it is requires a complicated prescription as well, it accompanied by the people's collaborations and the cannot be done by any one, it calls for expertise. country's at national level." The Director General But as we witness, about these subjects, all are also said that the role of local communities in counting themselves as the experts. We know that conservation of environment and natural resources one of the ways to conserve the areas is by is an undeniable fact. constructing a conservation area. These are some basic myths that are very dangerous.
He also added that: unfortunately, at the moment, The first workshop of " Developing the more than one million hectares of the Zagros national document on the CZM Design forests are suffering from deceases, all are talking System" was held about the decease and nut what has cause it, while this is the secondary reason causing deforestation. When the tree is weak it will be prone to deceases. How do you expect the oaks' forest not to be decreasing, while you are having excessive grazing
of live stock, wildfire, making dams without having any limitations, and even making charcoals from the oaks trees? In the end, he thanked the Zagros Project, and evaluated the recent activities that are done about this issue as positive and also asked all The attendees of the first workshop of "Developing the stakeholders to collaborate in conserving the the national document on the CZM Design System" Zagros' ecosystem. were some of the representative from DoE, MoJA, cultural and tourism organization, NGOs in Iran and
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In this workshop, the National Project's Manager, climate and biodiversity are decreasing. It had never then presented a presentation on aimes faced with such threats and challenges. Therefore, for getting away from these challenges that are Then, Ms. Shirin Abolghasemi, the NPM, talked threatening all of the human lives wer are about the aims, plans and key actions done in the suggesting the followings to be note by the national Conservation of biodiversity of Central Zagros budgeting guys at macro level. In other part of this Mountains. Next, Dr. Ali Nazaridoust, Program statement, the country's policy-making is based on analyst, Environment and Sustainable Development the results gained by the land-use studies and Cluster in Tehran, explained the importance of ecological power, and also sustainable use of mainstreaming of biodiversity natural resources. They also noted that the catmint Then, Mr. Jamshid Aghazamani, the National of Zagros is providing more than 40 % of the water Consultant of The Zagros Project, stated the resources of all Iran so it needs a nationwide importance of CZM Design System and analyzing attention and collaboration to decrease the threats. the challenges and opportunities for the 50 per cent decrease in consumption of biodiversity conservation, and finally the workshop water, fertilizers and chemical pesticides In ended on the same day. Kor-Kamfirouz Director Generals of DoEs' request to diminish Zagros' Threats
Simultaneously with the Week of Environment, The attendees of this meeting that were the there was a 1-day workshop held on sustainable Directors General of DoE had emphasized on the agriculture by IPCM which was implemented from a Land-use and ecological evaluation, one of the year ago in Kor-Kamfirooz was held. Its aim was to Zagros Project's main achievement, by issuing a have this method taught to the local people. This statement. workshop was hosted by the Fars MoJA, and attended by more than 40 representatives from the On 17th and 18th of May 2014, they stated that: " MoJA experts of 3 provinces, Kohgilooye & Boyer The DoE of Iran is now in one of its most dangerous Ahmad, Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, and Isfahan. In and vulnerable conditions in its history. Usually, the this workshop, the representatives of MoJA from indicators and factors in the field of water, soil,
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Hormozgan and Ilam Provinces were also invited "The planting of endangered species project" with the aim of decreasing the consumption of began in Dena-Vanak water, fertilizers and chemical pesticides.
Muhammad Sharifi Moghadam , the national director of the sustainable agriculture project, said about this project's achievement that: " the implementation of this project in Kor- Kamforooz in the first phase only have resulted in 6436110 RLs/ha that of equal to 3.8 % increase.
He also added that: substituting the chemical pesticides with the biological ones, decreasing the With the collaboration of Zagros Project, DoE, water about 50 %, the substitution of the biological Natural Resources Organization and Semirom fertilizers for the chemical ones, 3.7 per cent of natural resources association company 6000 square increase in the income are other advantages of this meterzs in Dena-Vanak area have been allocated for method. The classical harvesting of rice that was planting the Dracocephalum Kotschi and Thymus very common in Kor-Kamfirooz has resulted in Daenesis in 3 pilots, Khine in Padena, Nomads' land decreasing the level of the wetlands' water in Jasoor Olia, and Tang Gale Gav. There was an including the International Wetland of Perishan. agreement signed between the Zagros Project and the Isfahan NRO and also an MoU signed between the Project and Semirom's natural resources' association company to have it selected as the director of the project. The aim of this project is to cultivate the endangered plant species in Dena- Vanak through the collaboration of local communities. If the project turns out to be successful, it will be adopted through Semirom. After selecting the lands and the users, the seedling of those plants were ready to be planted.
6 LPCs' meetings in 4 PMAs of Zagros Project
IPCM strategy is one of the strategies that will have In the 2nd quarter of 2014, there were 6 Local a blending management of pesticides and product Planning Committees held in the 4 Pilot in order to reach the sustainable agriculture that management areas. has been one the plans of GEF/SGP from 2009 onwards. It was done in most of the International Projects in Iran especially in Oroomie and Parishan that had many positive economy, social, and ecological impacts.
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The workshop of " Sustainable Strategies' Development" was held in Shiraz
In late June, the first The workshop of " Sustainable Strategies' Development" in both Shiraz and Kor- Kamfirooz were held.
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