Middle East Program

PROGRAM EXPANSION

New Publication:
Consensus Building and Collaborative Conservation

 


Mounir and Larry
QLF Alumnus and President's Award recipient Mounir Abi-Said from Lebanon and QLF President Larry Morris at Canterbury Cathedral. Photograph by Diana Abi-Said

Persian Gulf
The Middle East Program is currently exploring program expansion to the Persian Gulf.

We are planning our first Exchange for conservation leaders from the Persian Gulf region to include Kuwait, the Emirates, and Oman.  This exchange is scheduled for the summer of 2009.

Fishermen in Muscat, Oman Muscat, Oman. Increased tanker traffic and polution have affected the fisheries in the Persian Gulf. Coastal communities here have the same conerns about their future as their counterparts in the Atlantic Region. Addressing these common concerns across cultures and geography is the basis of QLF's stewardship exchanges. Photograph by Larry Morris