Mohammad Farhadinia winner of National Youth Award in Iran

On 8 July 2010, final ceremony for the first National Festival of Iranian Youth was held in Tehran, Iran. The festival was organized in 14 categories with numerous attendants from across the country as well as Iranian youths abroad.

Mohammad Farhadinia was selected to win the First Iranian Youth Award on category “environment and natural resources” for 2010. More than 4100 youths sent their application. He received his award from Iranian vice-President and head of the Iranian National Youth Organization as well as several parliament members and Iranian Administration representatives. He just finished his master on Persian leopard in University of Tehran.

He worked as managing director for the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS) since establishment in 2001 until 2008, and now he is working as the ICS co-founder as well as deputy of Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah Project (since 2008).

The selection was due to his longterm efforts to save the Iranian large carnivores, particulalry Asiatic cheetah and Persian leopard. He already won a number of national and international awards, personally or as a representative from the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS), such as Iranian National Environment Award (2005) and “Future for Nature Award” in Burger Zoo, the Netherlands (2009).