Dr. Roomi S. Hayat, Chairperson, IUCN Pakistan National Committee, has welcomed the new Protected Areas Initiative, launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan on July 2, 2020, terming it a major impetus to nature conservation in Pakistan. Continue reading “Chairman IUCN Pakistan National Committee Lauds Government’s Protected Areas Initiative”
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”
A special meeting of the NGOs and Islamabad-based civil society members of IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Pakistan National Committee (PNC), was held in Islamabad today to discuss the environmental impact of the Margallah Hills Tunnel Project. Continue reading “Details of Margallah Tunnel Project be made public, urges civil society”
