During a meeting held on October 21, 2019 in Marine Environment and Wetlands Department, in presence of Dr. Lahijan Zadeh – vice president of marine environment and wetlands department-, Dr. Mirshekar – Director of the Office for the Conservation of Marine Ecosystem and Coasts- , Dr. Gholinejad – Director of Environment Department of Bushehr Province- and Mr. Khaksar- Director of Nouri Petrochemical Co.- , the beginning of National action plan of this important environmental project was announced.

At this event, many years of attempts in environmental causes by the Plan4theLand team, especially regarding the marine life was appreciated by Dr. Lahijan Zadeh. Additionally, he regarded the Plan4theLand approach in conservation by research, education and attendance in local community as valuable. Also, he appreciated Nouri Petrochemical Co.’s endeavors to conserve the environment and supporting this project. He demanded providing the needed conditions for introduction and exemplifying such actions for other industries in Iran. Mr. Khaksar then described environmental activities of Nouri Petrochemical Co. as well as their achievements such as “Green Industry Award” of Iran in 2018, International energy award, and Social responsibility award of Ministry of Petroleum in 2019 based on their activities in the conservation of Humpback Dolphin project, etc. He also thanked the Department of Environment of Iran for their endeavors to solve the problems that industries are facing regarding this issue.

In the other section of the event, Dr. Gholinejad, director of Environment Department of Bushehr Province explained that the conservation of the Humpback Dolphin of the Persian Gulf project has been continuing since 2013 in “Mond” and “Nakhiloo” conserved areas under supervision of Environment Department of Bushehr Province and with the support of Nouri Petrochemical Co. as a research project, and we are aiming to extend this project to other coastal provinces such as Khouzestan and Hormozgan as well.