September 12th, 2011 The Post Graduate Certificate on Environmental Management (PCEM), the first training course of the ECO Institute of Environmental Science and technology (ECO-IEST) was inaugurated on Sunday 12 September. Representatives from Afghanistan, Georgia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Thailand, and Turkey are participating in the course.
May 1st, 2011 The ECO-IEST first educational programme, a Postgraduate Certificate on Environmental Management (PCEM) invites experts who work in governmental agencies in the ECO region and rest of the World, to apply.
August 3rd, 2010 Indian minister for the environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh, has picked three sites for the reintroduction of the animal within a year. Eighteen cheetahs are to be brought from Iran, Namibia and South Africa. A budget of over £500,000 has been made available to prepare the sites for their release.
November 20th, 2009 Mongabay announced the availability of the Madagascar site for children in Farsi (Persian). Special thanks to Hamidreza Rastegar for his efforts. The Madagascar site for children is now available in German, Spanish, French, Croatian, Slovak, Farsi, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, and English.
August 9th, 2009 The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is officially commemorated on 9 August annually in recognition of the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva in 1982. UNESCO’s "Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems" (LINKS) Programme is currently working on a major project ‘On the Frontlines of Climate Change: [...]
March 25th, 2009 The Regional Capacity Development Workshop for Central Asia on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and the Mainstreaming of Biodiversity co-hosted by the Department of the Environment and the Ramsar Regional Center for Central and Western Asia, took place in Ramsar City of Iran from 9 to 12 March 2009. It was organized by [...]
