Syria is Richest County in the Region with Wildlife

DAMSCUS, (ST) – Syria is the richest country in the region in wildlife, which constitutes a national treasure and a renewable resource to the content of plant and animal species.

Concerned bodies in Syria underscores the need for attention to the diverse and numerous animals and wild plants whereas the Directorate of Biodiversity and Reserves at the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs focused on the importance of increasing awareness about the benefits of keeping these wild animals and plants and the urgent need to intensify the treatment of criminal abuses that committed the right to wildlife because of their importance in the economic, environmental and social life.

The wildlife protection is considered a guarantee to ensure the sustainability of nature and realize the extent of its important where wild animals is useful in medical and scientific research and laboratory experiments as wildlife is a source of genes through use in the genetic improvement of economic types of animal and plant by modern biotechnology techniques.

The Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs has given significant role in the protection of wildlife through the enactment of laws and regulations and to join the international conventions and protocols governing the frameworks of protection and preservation of wealth such as those of “biodiversity and protect vital migratory species and the protection of immigrant birds.

During their participation in the workshop that the International Fund for Animal Welfare organized in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the ministry signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the protection of sharks, whether the risk of hunting or trafficking and other memorandum pertaining to the project Regional Protection of Birds Hovercraft and migratory considered non-fishing.

Earlier, the ministry held several workshops on wildlife monitoring and management of protected areas within the framework of the project to strengthen capacity in the field of sustainable management and protection of wildlife and natural reserves.

The ministry is working through the project of the National Environmental Observatory on a detailed study of the components of wildlife in natural reserves and modeling in databases that have been prepared for this purpose and a networking will be conducted between the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture to standardize data concerning natural reserves and the content of Wildlife.

Sh. Al -Khatib