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Gawadar District Assembly members visit Peshawar
Peshawar May 21-22: In a series of countrywide exposure visit under the auspices of IUCNP's Gwadar Office, district assembly member's of Gwadar paid visit to IUCNP Sarhad Programme Office. The main purpose of the exposure visit was to brief them about IUCN Pakistan initiatives and major achievements for greening district sustainable development visions, in terms of formulating conservation strategies either at national or provincial levels so that they could equip themselves in translating this experience sharing mechanism in Gawadar District Sustainable Development Plan (DSDP) under the thumb of Local Government Ordinance 2001.
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Earth Day 2004 By Moin Haider Zaidi
IUCN Balochistan Programme celebrated the Earth Day- April 22nd, 2004. In this connection, a seminar on “Creating the sustainable communities” was organized in collaboration with Iqra University Quetta Campus.
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Effective steps for protected areas care a must: Speakers
Islamabad, April 30: Pakistan's declared protected area system covers around ten per cent of its total land mass which is reasonably good coverage as compared to the global average, said the country representative of IUCN in Pakistan, Abdul Latif Rao.
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Chitral becomes first district in Pakistan to adopt a conservation strategy
Chitral, the northernmost mountainous district of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, now has the distinction of being the first district in the country to have its own conservation strategy, following its formal approval as an 'integrated development vision' by the District Government.
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Workshop on ‘Separate Environmental tribunals for NWFP'
Peshawar, March 30: Participants at IUCN's one day consultative workshop on ‘Separate Environmental Tribunal in NWFP – Options and Issues' discussed and debated the need for a separate environmental tribunal in NWFP, which would be instrumental in dealing with environmental cases specific to the Province. Currently, environmental cases of NWFP are the responsibility of the Environmental Tribunal at Lahore.
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One-Day Managers Conference held in Galiat
Abbottabad, March 24: The ERNP sub-project ‘Natural Resource Conservation Project' (NRCP), Galiat arranged a one-day Managers' Conference at Green Gardens, Abbottabad. Around 150 community representatives from Thai, Berote and Boi areas attended the Conference, which continued from 10.30 a.m. till 4.00 p.m in the evening.
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Workshop on ‘Separate Environmental Tribunal for Balochistan'
Quetta, March 25: Participants at IUCN's one-day consultative workshop ‘Separate Environmental Tribunal in Balochistan -Options and Issues', held on March 25, 2004, discussed and debated the need for a separate environmental tribunal in Balochistan which would be instrumental in dealing with environmental cases specific to the Province.
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Steps urged to avert natural disasters
ISLAMABAD, March 21: During the last fifty years, Pakistan has suffered a cumulative financial loss of over Rs380 billion, while more than 6,000 people have died on account of major floods.
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First-ever multi-sectoral Roundtable on promoting participation in public hearings on EIA
At a meeting convened by the Pakistan National Committee of IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) at a hotel in Karachi, over 70 representatives of all stake-holders in the environment sector held a comprehensive and interactive discussion on how to improve participation of citizens in public hearings held in connection with the formulation of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
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IUCN Asia Region team reviews environmental rehabilitation work in Murree, Kotli Sattian
A high level delegation of IUCN Asia region led by Aban Marker Kabraji, Regional Director Asia visited Murree and Koti Sattian. Aban and her team, comprised of Alejandro Imbach, Udaya Lakshman Kaluaratchi, Andrew Ingles and Nikhat Sattar, attended community meetings and reviewed project interventions carried out by the ERNP -Environmental Rehabilitation in NWFP and Punjab.
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Sign language CD launched
KARACHI, March 7: Speakers at a function on Saturday said that, with the production of a new CD, people could learn the sign language which is used by the deaf.
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Wetlands of Pakistan available online
Thatta, Feb 26: Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, often referred to as the “nature's supermarkets” because of their extensive and rich food webs and biodiversity. Wetlands of Pakistan website was launched at the event took place at Haleji Lake, one of Pakistan’s nineteen Ramsar Wetland Sites of International Importance. The launch was jointly organized by the IUCN Sindh Programme, WWF and Sindh Wildlife department.
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Recycling of waste water may save billions
KARACHI, Feb 18: An estimated 975.771 million gallons of water goes waste annually in Pakistan, a country perpetually exposed to varied degrees of water crisis each year in the backdrop of long summer spells and fast depleting water resources.
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Two-day workshop on ‘Environmental Journalism’ for the Journalists of Makran Division
Gawadar, Jan 15&16: IUCN Balochistan Programme district office Gawdar organised a two day workshop on ‘Environmental Journalism’ on January 15 & 16, 2004 at Fish harbour rest house Gwadar for the Journalists of Makran Division
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Implementation of 91 water accord urged
Hyderabad, Jan 17: A seminar on ‘Environmental, Social and Cultural Impact of Water Scarcity on Sindh’ has recommended that the 1991 water accord being a consensus document should be implemented in letter and in spirit.
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Attention to social impacts of large dams is essential
Haripur, Dec 29: A one-day national workshop on “Mitigating Social Impacts of Large Dams” was organized by IUCN - The World Conservation Union, the Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP) and SUNGI on Dec 29, 2003 in Haripur.
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