1st Middle East nature school opens in Iran

Sharekord, July 14, IRNA – Director for policy making at the environment organization Mohammad Darvish said on Saturday that the first ever nature school has been established in the Middle East and Southwest Asia in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Speaking to reporters and the opening ceremony for the second nature school in the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, he said the school has already opened over past 30 years in countries such as Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark and then after the US, Canada, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia some four years ago it entered Iran. Students from 29 provinces have taken advantage of services rendered by some 77 culture school, he said. Establishment of such schools is underway in other provinces such as Qom and Khuzestan, he said. In such schools, students have the option to be acquainted with natural life and culture. 1378/IRNA