Mahmiyat.ps celebrates the international biodiversity day

In the past years mahmiyat.ps cooperated with governmental institutions and the Hanns Seidel Foundation in the field of biodiversity and the nature reserves.

In the initial stages, the community events had the slogan “ lets know more about it”, aiming at educating more about the nature reserves, then it had the slogan “ the cleanliness of the reserves is our responsibility”, which aimed at engaging the community positively in the protection and cleaning of the reserves.

Through the community events of mahmiyat.ps and with the support of the Hanns Seidel Foundation they have visited 23 nature reserves in 2017. Around 1700 participants attended of which 43% were Females, 57% were males. They were either explorers, researchers, photographers, university and school students, employees of governmental and civil organizations  and they were from Gaza, Jenin, Bethlehem, Nablus, Ramallah, Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Tubas, Hebron, Salfit and villages from nearby the nature reserves.