Why conservation in Iran?

Question

The audience listened to him in stunned silence. Then the chairman of the meeting told the forestry official that while his statistics were all very interesting, they didn’t reflect the real situation reported by observers. This response met with hearty applause, which showed the level of discontent felt by Iranian conservationists.

The conservation department at the forestry agency says there are about a thousand forest fires recorded across Iran every year. About a hundred of them occur in the Caspian and Hirkan forests in the north.

The agency says these fires come at a high price, but its calculations are based only on the price of timber and ignores the environmental and historical value of these forests.

Ninety-five per cent of forest fires are started by human activity....

Sounds like California!

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=irn&s=f&o=345647&apc_state=henpirn

Answer 1

What is not evident is a trend. If the trend is to more or larger fires, are we seeing more, or just larger fires. Are the fires more difficult to contain?

Fires are much easier to get started and much harder to put out when there is less rainfall. And like Southern California, Iran has been experiencing more drought. Like S. California environmentalists can be as angry as they wish, but being angry at forest fires does not appear to be effective.

In Iran, as in S California there is a need for major investment in desalination and in nuclear power to make that viable. But Iran, like S CALIFORNIA, is at risk of seismic activity to an extent that people legitimately fear nuclear.