Seminar on Coastal and Marine Wealth of Pakistan
Speakers highlighted the significance of mangroves in balancing coastal ecosystem, and warned that cutting of mangroves for land reclamation and dumping of untreated sewerage waste are the major threats to mangroves. …
22 May 2012 | News story
Inauguration of Ziarat Ecotourism Center
The Ziarat Tourism Center was inaugurated by Maulana Abdul Samad Akhundzada, Minister for Forest and Wildlife, Government of Balochistan in a ceremony held on 22nd May, 2012. …
22 May 2012 | International news release
Regional Vulture Conservation Symposium
IUCN organised a Regional Vulture Symposium from May 3-5, 2012 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The workshop brought together a number of organisations and experts from vulture range countries in South Asia (Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and India) to develop and implement a regional response to save the critically threatened South Asian vulture species from extinction. …
03 May 2012 | News story
Bhurban Declaration 2012 adopted at the South Asia Conference on Environmental Justice
A fortnight into the successful completion of South Asia Conference on Environmental Justice, it is already being considered a new chapter in the environmental history of Pakistan. With its Bhurban Declaration, unanimously adopted and agreed upon by the Chief Justices from the region and beyond, the conference is a pivotal step in the wake of environmental degradation that plagues the region. …
10 Apr 2012 | News story
Launching of Integrated District Development Visions for Quetta, Pishin and Mastung districts
IUCN Pakistan under its Balochistan Partnerships for Sustainable Development Programme (BPSD) launched the Integrated District Development Visions (IDDVs) for Quetta, Mastung and Pishin districts in a ceremony held on April 05, 2012 at Quetta …
05 Apr 2012 | International news release
Seminar on World Water Day-2012 "Water and Food Security” at the Department of Botany, University of Karachi
Each year, World Water Day highlights various aspects of Water Conservation. It is an international day, celebrated to create awareness about rapidly depleting resource and was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating March 22nd, 1993 as the first World Water Day. …
22 Mar 2012 | News story
Certificate Distribution Ceremony and Spring Planation at Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Quetta
A Certificates Distribution ceremony was held on March 03, 2012 at the Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University, Quetta to award the certificates to the students of the Young Professional Development Programme (YPDP). This progrmame is a result of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between IUCN and the Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University in March 2009. …
13 Mar 2012 | International news release
National Conference on Mangroves Ecosystem in Pakistan: Sharing of Experience with Policy Makers
A national conference titled: National Conference on Mangroves Ecosystem in Pakistan: Sharing of Experience with Policy Makers was organised by the Human Resource Development Network (HRDN) from March 8-9, 2012 at Hotel Pearl Continental at Karachi. This conference was first of its kind in Pakistan which specifically focused on the mangroves ecosystem of Pakistan. …
09 Mar 2012 | News story
Photography exhibition on Pakistan’s Coastal Ecosystem - an MFF- Pakistan Small Grants event
Environmental degradation needs to be combated at the governmental and community levels.
Federal Secretary National Disaster Management Muhammad Javed Malik said that environmental degradation is a big challenge, which has to be prioritised at the governmental as well as community level. …
06 Mar 2012 | News story
