WORLD DAY TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATIONand

SIGNING CEREMONY OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION PHASE III ADDENDUM

(2017-2022)

Gary Lewis

Tehran, Iran

17 June 2017

In many parts of Iran desertification has been caused when pastoralists let their flocks of goats and sheep overgraze the land.

Growing the saplings in a nursery.

Re-afforestation

Re-afforestation

UNDP-supported re-afforestation project

Re-afforestation

UNDP-supported re-afforestation project

Watering the saplings by tanker

Young sapling after watering

UNDP-supported re-afforestation project near Karaj, west of Tehran

Re-afforestation

Re-afforestation

Outside of Kashan

The project has solved the fuel-wood problem by supplying residents with simple stoves which use paraffin.

Thank you