Pr A. GHAHREMAN has implemented a major scientific project for the preservation of a unique environment: Qeshm Island's mangrove marine forests located between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman (Iran).

The project is being set up to prevent the whole scale destruction of this rare and very fragile ecosystem, and to establish a strict protection of this humid area and also to improve the growth of these mangrove forests.

In 1991, Pr Ghahreman, for the first time in Iran, harvested propagules (a certain type of Mangrove tree seeds) and sowed them on the island seashore. This project is the result of collaboration between « Qeshm Organisation Free Zone » as well as students and villagers involved in the project.

Since then every year, the operation was successfully repeated thanks to the significant impact observed on those marine forests and the rural income enhancement.