Earth Watchers Center
Encyclopedia
Earth Watchers Center is a non-profit environmental organization in Iran
which has been functioning since September 2002.
EWC's aim is to help reduce the existing environmental problems and to preserve the Earth’s heritage through raising public awareness. They plan to achieve this by reporting case studies based on data obtained from surveying and fact -finding trips, by printing educational pamphlets and by arranging public educational scientific tours.
EWC holds that the most fundamental step to be taken toward raising public awareness and knowledge is to inform people from all social strata, from the layman up to the highest level of decision makers.
Informing people is the main activity of EWC, and is being done by two outlets: Website and Annual magazine.
Information
→ Awareness
→ Conservation
is the EWC's motto.
Earth Watchers Center's founders have more than ten years experience in this field.
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
which has been functioning since September 2002.
EWC's aim is to help reduce the existing environmental problems and to preserve the Earth’s heritage through raising public awareness. They plan to achieve this by reporting case studies based on data obtained from surveying and fact -finding trips, by printing educational pamphlets and by arranging public educational scientific tours.
EWC holds that the most fundamental step to be taken toward raising public awareness and knowledge is to inform people from all social strata, from the layman up to the highest level of decision makers.
Informing people is the main activity of EWC, and is being done by two outlets: Website and Annual magazine.
Information
Information
Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message or collection of messages that consists of an ordered sequence of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as...
→ Awareness
Awareness
Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of...
→ Conservation
Conservation ethic
Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to...
is the EWC's motto.
Earth Watchers Center's founders have more than ten years experience in this field.
A summary of EWC's activities
- Publication of more than 100 pieces of news related to the environment from Iran and the world since the beginning of the activity to January 2006. These are in order of the most frequent in the news to the least:
- Forests in the north of Iran, Wetlands, Watersheds in Tehran, Natural disasters (floodFloodA flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water...
, StormStormA storm is any disturbed state of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather...
and EarthquakeEarthquakeAn earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time...
), Oil pollution, Swage and waste, Water and Air pollution, Climate changeClimate changeClimate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
, poisons and Stable tourismTourismTourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
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- Forests in the north of Iran, Wetlands, Watersheds in Tehran, Natural disasters (flood
- Book writing and publication concerning forests in the north of Iran (values and threats) named "At The Threshold Of Bidding Farewell To Ancient North Forests". This book was selected as the best book of the year among 100 books concerning environmental matters focusing on the environmental issues in 2004 by Mehrgan Institute.
- Publication of four informative magazines.
- Attending different Environmental fairs and being selected as the top Iranian non-profit environmental organization in 2005.
- Attending demonstrations such as protesting against destruction of Miankaleh Pond by oil companies.
- Taking more than 900 pictures from environmental values and threats regarding Ancient Forests, Iranian Wetlands, Tehran Watersheds, oil pollution in the south of Tehran, Sewage and waste pollution, Iranian deserts and rare species, more than 60 cases of the rare species were displayed on the website.
- More than 45 group-visiting carried out in different places (Forests, Wetlands, Watersheds, etc).
Wonders of IRAN's Nature (photo gallery)
Some environmental threats in Iran (Photo Gallery)
- Environmental problems of Tehran Refinery
- North of Iran forests