TEHRAN –The fourth international conference on the conservation of environment and natural resources will open tomorrow in the northwestern city of Ardabil and will run for two days.

Protection and restoration of forest ecosystems; forest health and biodiversity; ecological approach to forests and pastures management; climate change; environmental hazards and ecological resilience; assessing, modeling, and managing water, soil, and plant resources; remote sensing and geographic information systems; community-based forests and pastures management; laws, rights and natural resources governance; environment and socio-economic issues; environmental and civil engineering; sustainable urban, rural, and ecotourism development; biosecurity and environmentally-friendly agriculture; and green investment, management and supply of raw materials for wood and paper industries are the main objectives of this conference.

Calendar days

The fifteenth day of Esfand – the last Iranian calendar month, which falls on March 5, has been approved to be registered on the national calendar as the ‘Environmental Protection Education Day’.

Nourollah Moradi, the Department of Environment's director for educational affairs, said on Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Education Day is the second environmental event to be registered in the country's official calendar, IRNA reported.

Clean Earth Day, April 22, was the first environmental event registered in the national calendar.

He referred to the registration of the Environmental Protection Education Day in the country's official calendar as a valuable event for the environmental society of the country and said, “Education in the field of environment is one of the basic steps to preserve and protect the country's environment.”

It will be an important measure taken to enhance environmental literacy and empower the next generations.”

MT/ MG