Under the patronage of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (MAAR) and in cooperation with the Migratory Soaring Birds project (MSB), the Syrian Society for the Conservation of Wildlife (SSCW) held a workshop entitled: “Rehabilitation of Hunters and Cadres for the implementation of the updated hunting law“. This workshop was held in the meeting room of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform at the Hijaz Square in Damascus, on May 10, 2015. More than forty representatives of various civil and governmental organizations, hunters and local communities participated in it
The participants discussed various topics during the workshop focusing on the importance of activating the role of Hunters in managing sustainable hunting activating along those involved from the local communities and the need to proceed further to update the Hunting law and its procedures and the importance of establishing centers for game birds breeding for hunting activities within Hunting reserves and promoting the establishment of hunting clubs aiming to adopt the concepts of sustainable and responsible hunting.