IUCN’s partner ICIMOD supports K2 ExpeditionThe ‘First Nepali Women Expedition to K2 2014’ comprising three young women climbers from Nepal has set out to climb Mt K2 in Pakistan. At 8611m, K2 is the second highest mountain on earth. Continue reading “Women Climbing for Climate Change”
A tunnel without vision
There is no way to size up nature, and therefore, it is not possible to humanly calculate the costs of this project.
The term ‘ tunnel vision’ has always been used as a pejorative. People accused of having it are also variously called myopic, short-sighted, shallow, etc. But when one hears of grandiose projects like Islamabad New City, to be made accessible to the old one through a tunnel to be drilled through the National Park in the Margalla Hills, one wishes to plaster all of the above words and more on those conceiving the project! Continue reading “A tunnel without vision”
Ladies try to rescue our threatened forests, but timber mafia still active! By: Afia Salam, Member of IUCN CEC
NOTE: This article was written before the recent implementation of the ban.
I want to thank some lady Parliamentarians. Yes I am being gender biased by making a distinction here but deliberately so. Kudos to Senator Saeeda Iqbal and MNA Maryam Aurangzeb for the spunk they have shown in getting the order of former PM, Raja Pervez Ashraf of removal of ban on timber movement from Gilgit-Baltistan reversed. Continue reading “Ladies try to rescue our threatened forests, but timber mafia still active! By: Afia Salam, Member of IUCN CEC”
Marine turtles: An indicator of healthy oceans and coasts
Published in E-Talk Newsletter of Shah Latif University Botanical Garden Herbarium in Volume 6, Issue 8,
By: Nadeem Mirbahar, Member of IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management
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E-Talk September 2013