Pakistan is home to unique wildlife which is found in its representative ecosystem across the country, varying from sea level to high altitude snow-covered mountain ranges of Himalayas, Hindukush, and the Karakoram...
Let us celebrate biodiversity jointly because it is the life-support system which is our living partner on the planet earth...
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change is implementing a project to promote conservation of biodiversity and strengthen existing conservation efforts by using an innovative market-based mechanism, according to official sources...
The project called “Mountains and market biodiversity and business in northern Pakistan” aims to develop community and institutional capacity for certified production of biodiversity-friendly and...
Women are unpaid labourer and silent environmentalists working for the conservation of biodiversity deteriorating due to climate change...
Wildlife parks may be set up in different locations of Thal zone where all diminishing plant and animal species may be reared under controlled conditions...
Masters and bachelors students contributed some 135 oil on canvas paintings to the Pakistan Mountain Festival...
The week-long exhibition is part of an annual event – now in its fifth year – arranged by local NGO Development Communications Network (Devcom-Pakistan)...
Pakistan has a 1,050 kilometre coastline spanning across Balochistan and SindhInland water resources have dwindled from 5,000 cubic metres per capita in 1947 to less than 1,000 todayCoastal pollution and climate change directly impacts the welfare and livelihoods of nearby populationsRio+20, held in 2012, culminated with the agreement to focus on 17 goals as a build up to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2030...
Goal 14,...
While the entire financial world is going through a movement giving environment, social, governance (ESG), its due importance, likewise devising regulations and policies to curb the social and environmental impacts of business activity, Pakistan still seems to be struggling to understand what ESG means...
Biodiversity describes the variety of life and is the living component of what can be thought of as natural capital stocks...
BEIJING: Delegates from 195 countries pledged to set “ambitious” goals to halt the loss of biodiversity and destruction of ecosystems as the first phase of a key UN summit ended on Friday...
The COP15 gathering in south China’s Kunming saw the adoption of a declaration to recognise the importance of biodiversity in human health, strengthen species protection laws and improve the sharing of genetic resources...
BERLIN: Section by section, American artist Ryan Mendoza painstakingly disassembled the small wood-frame home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks after learning that the struggling city of Detroit was going to have it demolished...
The house has been up in Berlin less than a year, but after violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the growing call to remove Confederate monuments in the United States, the New...
KARACHI: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is about to shift gears and enter its next phase as the industrial working group on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is going to finalise its recommendations on Tuesday and decide which SEZ will begin first...
Also read: CPEC SEZs: myth and realityThe CIECC is a state-owned consulting firm that will carry the final recommendations from its meetings in Pakistan back to the National...
FOR the last more than five years we have been requesting the KMC’s Horticulture Department to develop the parks located in Street 21 and Street 22, Block-15, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Karachi...
There are no parks in the vicinity where children could play and adults sit and relax...
However, the document bears the signature of Afaq Mirza — a known confidante of Mr Sattar — currently director general (DG), Parks & Horticulture Department, KMC, as a witness...
The letter awarding the contract was signed by then DG Parks, KMC, Asadullah Shah...
LAHORE: The closure of public parks for an indefinite period proves that the security arrangements at such public places by the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) were inadequate...
The PHA says its parks were well guarded by its private security guards along with police...
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has failed to improve the condition of three parks damaged during the construction of the metro bus track in the garrison city...
When the citizens criticised the government for the damages to the parks and greenbelts, Commissioner Zahid Saeed, who was the project director, promised that the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) would improve the condition of the parks...
RAWALPINDI: Following the suicide attack on a public park in Lahore, Rawalpindi’s Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) on Tuesday closed all the parks in the city for a week...
A senior PHA official said park employees and gardeners have been asked to improve the condition of the parks while they are closed...
He imposed a ban on the installation of swings and other recreational items for children in ?all ?public parks? of the province?...
He asked the chief secretary and health secretary to make a comprehensive report and define protocol and regulations for the installation of swings in the parks...