Conservation Education to Save the Endangered Persian Leopard

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Conservation Education to Save the Endangered Persian Leopard in Iran 36 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. www.wildlife.ir
Conservation Education to Save the Endangered Persian Leopard in Iran 37 Fig. 33: Training courses for students Fig. 34: Field excursion for local students Fig. 35: Game wardens train local students in the field www.wildlife.ir
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