Bio-diversity

Project location:Shibderaz, Qeshm (Lat/Long:26.631419-55.568848) This is a livelihood and participatory protection of Hara farm project and local plant species between two villages of Deirestan and Shibderaz in cooperation with experts and Qeshm Free Area (QFA) Environmental Office. QFA will provide cash and in kind cofunding equal to the SGP funds, in addition to contracting 65 hectares of suitable land free of charge to local village councils of these villages for expansion of the farms and coming up with a local plan for management of the farms. The outputs are: 1. training and guarding the existing hand planted forests 2. expansion of the farms with the community producing the seedlings in their local nurseries participating in planting and protection 3. development of a participatory plan for management of the new farms 4. promoting alternative livelihoods inside Mangrove forests like Mangrove bee keeping 5. producing 3000 Neem tree seedlings for distributing them in schools for promoting the local indigenous plant and tree types in the yearly Day of Tree Plantation ceremony 6. Promoting interest among university candidates to enroll in natural resources fields including forestry, watershed and pasture management, biology of water species, bee keeping and etc.

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