The president of the world ICCA Consortium criticises the government’s conservation policies: “The work should be entrusted in the hands of the local community”.
Conservation of nature by non-governmental groups or associations, the UN etc., that does not take into account specialists and main stakeholders, meaning indigenous and local communities, is not acceptable.
Read the article (in Persian): PDF p.1 and p.4 – Sabzineh newspaper no 47