Golestan National Park is one of the models of environmental management in the country and the world

The Vice President and Head of the Environmental Protection Organization said: Golestan National Park is one of the models of environmental management in the country and the world. In terms of geological age, the biosphere is unique and other countries do not have such plant and animal diversity. You should go on a safari. become a park.

From Environmental Protection Organization, Ali Selajgeh in the first meeting of Golestan National Park and Biosphere Reserve Steering Council, which was held with the presence of the governors of Golestan, North Khorasan and the deputy governor of Semnan in Environmental Protection Organization, added about the importance of this council: Governors attach special importance to the environment and I hope We can also use these capacities.

Stating that the 13th government attaches special importance to the country’s environment, he clarified: The Supreme Council of Environment was convened every 2 years in the previous periods, but in the past five months, this council has been convened twice under the chairmanship of the president.

Selajgeh emphasized the necessity of a cooperative approach in preserving this biosphere and said: Governors have not made the political border the basis and have seen the park as a whole. We hope that this cooperative model will be a suitable model for other regions of the country, including the Turan complex and the central desert complex.

He added: “Today is not the time to talk about development issues, because development has its own growth and reaches its destination, but what destroys the development infrastructure is the lack of attention to the environment.”

The Vice President continued: Good projects have been carried out in Golestan National Park, the National Environmental Fund is fully prepared to grant loans and facilities, the important thing is that the documents of the National Park must be finalized, we are with the Natural Resources Organization. We will have a meeting and ask the governors to resolve the issue of the park document in Semnan and North Khorasan provinces.

Selajgeh also added about the Golestan National Park bypass road: This road has created an ecosystem break and on average destroys 230 heads of wildlife in the region every year.

The head of the Environmental Protection Organization stated that we should see the road as multi-purpose and from a tourism point of view, and said: It should be turned into a safari park and sledding and cycling should take place in order to strengthen the region from the point of view of tourism. The participation of local people is a very beautiful thing and we should take people’s presence more seriously, especially on the side of the road. If this happens, the people of the region will also participate in the protection. These options should be looked at nationally, although we will also benefit from the participation of the provinces. became.

Referring to the effective role of expert and environmentally committed fertilizers, he noted: these fertilizers are a group of worthy people who work as a jihadi and unpaid in different parts of the country, so we should have a special look at the provincial jihadi fertilizers and definitely A representative of Semans from each province should be present.

Selajgeh advised: A scientific and exemplary work should be done in the topic of zoning and location, and international capacities and experiences must be used.

Golestan National Park’s wildlife population has doubled

Also, the Director General of Environmental Protection of Golestan Province said about the history of the park and its importance: Golestan National Park with an area of ​​91,895 hectares is the first area under the management of the Environmental Protection Organization in 1336 and the first national park of the country, as well as a biosphere reserve and natural heritage of the Hyrkan forests in UNESCO. it is registered.

Mohammad Reza Kanani added: 69 species of mammals, 150 species of birds, 1,100 species of insects, 44 species of reptiles, 13 species of fish, 3 species of amphibians and 1,360 species of plants live in Golestan National Park. The key species of Golestan National Park have increased significantly in the last two decades.

The Director General of Environmental Protection of Golestan province continued: The population of rams and ewes in this park was 6506 before this year, which has increased to 8984 this year. The total population of goats, which was 659 before this year, has reached 849 this year.

According to Kanaani, the deer population was 419 before this year, which has reached 815 this year, and the deer population has increased from 340 to 387.

In the continuation of Mohammadreza Hosseinnejad; The Governor of North Khorasan emphasized that the role of the steering council should be made more prominent and the members of the council should be more effective in making decisions.

Also, Golestan governor announced the readiness of this province for all-round cooperation in the implementation of comprehensive nature tourism plans and added: the doubling of the species of Golestan National Park is a happy news and we consider it our duty to ask the executive management of Golestan National Park and the general managers of the three provinces and all Thank you environmentalists. We will do whatever we can to replace the bypass road.

Ali Mohammad Zanganeh considered the approach of cooperative conservation and the entry of the National Environmental Fund into this project as a good step and said: We have signed a cooperation document with the National Environmental Fund and we declare our readiness to implement comprehensive plans for nature tourism in the province.

In the continuation of the meeting, Mohammad Hamidi; The civil deputy of Semnan governor, referring to the importance of preserving the environment of Golestan National Park, stated: until today, there has been no place for such a group to manage parks located in several provinces, and this is one of the serious challenges of Golestan National Park, and with the establishment This council will solve the problems of this park.

In this meeting, important measures were taken and issues such as the implementation of the Demarcation Law, the Golestan National Park pass road, the comprehensive plan for preventing and dealing with pests and diseases, and the comprehensive plan for preventing and extinguishing fire were discussed and it was announced that in the past years, fewer parts Golestan National Park has caught fire. From 1357 to 1397, there have been an average of 6 fires per year with an area of ​​213 hectares. From 1398 to 1400, an average of 17 fires occurred annually with an area of ​​176 hectares. However, this year we faced 16 fires with an area of ​​28 hectares. So, even though we had more fires, the extent of the fire has decreased greatly.