I hereby thank God for providing me with the opportunity of serving Khouzestan

province since March 2005, which is of great importance in its natural environment due

to existence of important rivers such as Karoun, Karkhe, Dez, Jarrahi, Zohre and etc…

as well as Zagros range of mountains, productive plains and sensitive wetlands. Since

the beginning I realized the province which contains more than half of the Iranian

wetlands, has not received any part in Conservation of Iranian Wetlands Project. In

۲۰۰۷, after continuous follow ups and with the supports from CIWP, Shadegan wetland

was selected as CIWP first replication site and afterwards -since the late 2008- it has

been considered as the third pilot site of CIWP. CIWP with collaboration of DOE,

UNDP and GEF has been under implementation since 2005, with the goal of

elimination or sustainable mitigation of wetlands deteriorating factors/procedures and

providing sustainable management for these valuable ecosystems and finally will be

terminated in 2012. The important approach of CIWP is as follows