Mountain Environment Protection Society (MEPS) in cooperation with Tehran’s city council will held "Mountain Festival" from December 9^th to 11^th to celebrate International Mountain Day 2009.
"After the UN International Year of Mountains in 2002, its general assembly has designated 11^th of December as an "International Mountain Day" from 2003 onward to raise public awareness of mountains environment and its influence on life. As in other countries, mountains protection society in Iran follows up to International Mountain Day with a few celebrations and one of them is "Mountain Festival", which started last year," Said festival’s secretary, Shahnam Jabbari.
According to Shahnam, the beginning program of the festival is specialist’s meeting about "Disaster Risk Management in Mountains", which is the theme for International Mountain Day 2009. This congress will be held on Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 12, in "Melal" culture hall located inside "gheytariye" garden, north of Tehran.
"Sustainable development of mountainous region is one of the purposes declared in the UN International Year of Mountains. Therefore, a small exhibition composed of a few domestic echo-tourism companies beside a few companies providing outdoor equipments will be held during this 3-day festival from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.," Shahnam added.