The ninth general mountaineering course of the Nature-Friends Club of Iran was held in the District 5 of Tehran city. The course was for municipality staff hosted by the municipality of District 5 of Tehran with the cooperation of the municipality of Tehran city and the support of the embassy of Austria.

These courses, which are in the field of international activities of the Sports organization, are held to achieve the main goals of Iran nature-friends club such as:

1. Natural environment preservation
2. Maintaining general health state of inactive societies
3. Providing a platform for the right experience of societies presence in the nature
4. Developing sustainable tourism

This course was started with the presence of District 22 municipality mayor, Mr. Rahmanzadeh, social deputy of District 22 municipality, Dr. Adab, deputy of men’s sports recreations, Mr. Babaeyan, and the CEO of Iran nature-friends club, Mr. Mahmood Hashemi hosted by the District 22 of Tehran city.

International Nature-Friends club with 40 countries as its members and 125 years of experience is one of the greatest sports and cultural clubs in the world and Iran has joined this club since 2017.

In Asia, the Nature-Friends Club of Iran has been chosen as the first country that has joined the international Nature Friend.

This club has started its activities as Iran nature-friends club and is continuing its activities in the fields of developing sustainable tourism, standardization, and inclusive educational programs related to eco-tourism and mountaineering. In line with these goals, the Iran nature-friends club has started its cooperation with Tehran municipality to educate 800 employees weekly.

Living the nature, creating active and positive recreations among societies, and reducing the gap between people and nature are the most important goals of this club.

General informing about the destructive effects of urban life, filling the gap between people and nature by education, and general informing based on regional ecosystems, are the most important philosophy of this club. A hard strive to take to start inviting people to enjoy and protect nature.

The missions of this club, which tries to achieve its goals in the most favorable way, are inclusive information and education besides living the nature in the approaches of maintaining natural and cultural heritage in societies for all humans and sustainable tourism.

We hope that these provided educational projects result in an increase in public knowledge and encourage societies to play their role in eco-tourism.

The topics were educated in 12 hours by the masters of this field.

Educational presented topics in the sixth course of nature-friends:

Leadership in the group

Nature hazards

Natural environment preservation

Sports and entertainment

Photography in nature

Nature and mountains geography

The knowledge of practicing and Physiology in nature

Health indicators of elders

Nutrition in nature

Personal health care in mountains

Navigation in nature

Theoretical masters:

Dr. Mehdi Sedaghat, Ph.D. of physical education and sports science

Dr. Khojasteh, nutrition expert

Mr. Farid Roushanaee, nature-based photographer

Mr. Mehdi Soheil Farid, the head of the navigation department of the mountaineering federation

Mr. Hosein Rasaee, mountain guide

Workshop trainer:

Mr. Saeed Koushki, a member of the Iran navigation national team

The first day of the ninth course on the 21st February 14-20:

On the first day of the ninth “general mountaineering and eco-tourism” course, Educational topics including Nutrition in nature, Personal health care in mountains, The knowledge of practicing and Physiology in nature, and Health indicators of elders were taught.

The second day of the ninth course on the 22nd February 14-20:

On the second day of the course, Leadership in the group, Nature hazards, Natural environment preservation, Sports and entertainment, Nature and mountains geography, and Photography in nature were taught.

The third day of the ninth course on the 2nd March 14-18:

The third day of the ninth course was held as a workshop in the Chitgar forest park on the 2nd March. On this day, Navigation sport was introduced and navigation in nature and maps topic was taught. The purpose of the workshop was to provide the platform for the participants’ correct presence in nature and training them on the navigation topic.

Eventually, the workshop ended with an exciting navigation competition among participants to find the points in the forest park using maps.