Conservation Education to Save the Endangered Persian Leopard

Conservation Education to Save the Endangered Persian Leopard in Iran
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Objective 9: Planning regional pilot conservation educational projects in leopard hotspots
Conservation education as intensive projects in local communities has not been expected in
this project. We were hopeful that by the end of the year of leopard, regional pilot
conservation educational projects within leopards’ hotspots would be planned. However,
we are already achieved our goal, because during 2010, we successfully established two
different projects in central and western Iran to educate local people about the leopards in
Iran. Projects’ sites were selected based on Mortality Database we developed for the Iranian
leopards (Objective 1), particularly Lorestan that around one leopard was confirmed to be
poached on a monthly basis in 2010. Due to budget constraints, successful fundraising was
done to secure the projects. Details of the projects are as following:
Activity 9.1.Conservation Education of Local Community in Kalmand-Bahadoran Protected
Area, Central Iran
Subject:
Conservation Education of Local Community in
Location:
Kalmand-Bahadoran Protected Area, Central Iran
Duration: October 2010- May 2011
Audience:
Local people and authorities
Co-funds:
Royal Dutch Embassy in Tehran
Staffs:
Sima Babrgir (director), Safura Zavaran-Hosseini, Yasaman
Hasanbeygi, Morteza Eslami and Saba Sohrabinia
Activities: Holding workshops for Mehriz City & Kalman-
Bahadoran Protected Area’s game wardens;
Introducing project to Mehriz authorities;
Dissemination of the project activities &
achievements in local mass media;
Preparing training programs for local students;
Holding educational workshops for students;
Holding field visits for local students and teachers.
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