One million birds killed illegally every year at a wildlife site in Iran
Guardian - Conservationists sound alarm over unprecedented slaughter of rare and endangered species by hunters at three lagoons Robin McKie…
Environment
Oil From Sunken Iran Tanker Reached Japan Shores -Coast Guard
Reuters - Oil that reached islands in southern Japan earlier this month is highly likely to have come from the…
Iran: Sistan And Baluchistan Burning In Drought
Iran-HRM - Reza Arbabi, the Director General of the Crisis Management Department of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, said that about…
Environmentalists Detained in Iran Denied Legal Counsel Weeks After Arrests
CHRI - Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in custody—are being denied…
PM 2.5 level ‘beyond hazardous’ as another dust storm hits southwestern Iran
PayvandNews -The recent sand and dust storms have increased the PM 2.5 fine particles concentration to a 'beyond hazardous' level in the…
Round-Up Of Environmentalists Continues With The Arrest Of A Top Official
RFL/RE - Mahmoud Sadeqi, an outspoken member of the Iranian parliament says that the deputy chief of Iran’s Department of…
Thousands of Undocumented Iranians Denied Affordable Kerosene In Winter Months
CHRI - Tens of thousands of people living in poverty in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province are being denied heating…
Drought, dust storms suffocate Iran’s Khuzestan province
Al-Monitor -The air in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan is no longer safe to breathe. Although the region has been…
90% Of Tehran Wetlands Dry Out Aggravating Tehran’s Pollution
Iran-hrm -Masoud Bagherzadeh Karimi, Director of the Environment Organization’s Wetland Ecosystems, said 90% of the Salahieh and Allahabad wetlands in…
Conserving Iran and Iraq’s wetlands
unenvironment.org - There’s growing awareness in the Islamic Republic of Iran that wetlands are valuable and sustain livelihoods. Ramsar, “the…