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The Iranian Cheetah Society runs conservation education workshops emphasizing awareness and understating of wildlife and human-wildlife coexistence. During the workshops, the Society teaches volunteer educators basic concepts about the Iranian wildlife, particularly large carnivores, their needs and importance, and their relationships to people and the environment.
The first workshop was held on May 13 and focused on an introduction to large carnivores of Iran, with 11 volunteers attended. Trained facilitators conduct the Society’s educator workshops throughout this year and are available to educators free of charge.

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Iranian Cheetah Society hosted a one-day workshop about common plants in cheetah habitats in Iran. Majid Eskandari, author of “The Field Guide to Plants of Iran”, was the tutor of this workshop. Topics included in this workshop were: an introduction to cheetah habitats in Iran, the most common plants in cheetah habitats, a key to common plants in cheetah habitats in Iran, important plants for cheetah prey. This workshop was held as a series of the training workshops for the ICS’ researchers and members.

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Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) held a one-day poster design workshop focusing on environmental issues. The workshop was set up in the ICS’ head office in Tehran. Participants were thought from basics to more sophisticated techniques for poster design using advanced software. Each participant produced a poster at the end of the day based on what he/she had learned from the workshop. ICS aims to continue such capacity building activities for its members via short courses and workshops.

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The second photography workshop training with the topic of “Premises and equipment of nature and wildlife photography” was held in ICS’s office on December 1st.
In this workshop lasting for 4 hours, the topics of the first workshop were followed, then Mr. Kaveh Farzaneh evaluated and commented on photos by participants and they worked on improvement on ways of seeing. The worshop was ended by a Q & A session.
The aim of the workshop was to increase knowledge and skills of the members in photography and understanding the basics to capture better photos of the nature and wildlife.

The first Photography training workshop with the topic of “Premises and equipments of photography of nature and Wildlife” was held by solidarity of Avaye Arasban association.

In this workshop lasting of three hours and a half, the members of Iranian Cheetah Society, got to acknowledge the basics of photography, techniques to observe objects better, materials for photography and combinations in photography of nature. Also at the end of this workshop, Sir Kaveh Farzaneh answered questions of the audiences.
It should be noted the objective of this workshop was to gain the knowledge and improve members’ skills in the field of photography and introducing the basics in order to capture better pictures of the nature and the Wildlife and this will be done more frequently.