• February 17, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

HYDERABAD: Despite the backlash expected from encroachers, the Hyderabad municipality has refused to back down from its anti-encroachment drive. It is determined to strike against the squatters and industries polluting the air and water bodies in the city. Hundreds of industrial units in SITE area and thousands of residential and commercial structures, built over several […]

• February 17, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

KARACHI: With the aim of making the city green, World Wide Fund for Nature – Pakistan (WWF-P) and K-Electric jointly launched a tree plantation campaign on Tuesday. At least 500 mangrove saplings were planted during a ceremony at the WWF-P’s Wetland Centre located at Sandspit. Both organisations will plant thousands of trees in different parts […]

• February 17, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

Karachi: The Sindh Assembly was informed on Tuesday that the environment monitoring stations installed in two major industrial zones of Karachi with Japanese assistance in 2007 to the check levels of air pollution were closed since 2012. Environment and coastal development minister Dr Sikandar Mandhro was responding to a query during a question hour related […]

• February 15, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

LAHORE: The Punjab University’s paleontological team claimed to have discovered 1.1 million years old elephant tusk from Gujrat-Kharian area. A team of PU’s zoology department has been engaged in research and excavation in Kharian area. “The research scholars of zoology department have long been working at Pabbi of Rajo, Kharian and Sahawa and discovered a […]

• February 12, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

CHANGA MANGA – Tree plantation is a noble cause and everyone should protect trees, said Syed Ajmal Raheem, Conservator of Forests Lahore here yesterday. He was accompanied by Divisional Forest Officer Changa Manga Chaudhry Hayat Hassan. Syed Ajmal said that forests will be protected at all costs. The CF Lahore also inaugurated the miles-long barbed […]

• February 11, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

The wildlife traffickers trick law enforcement agencies by adopting new strategies to smuggle numerous precious species and use of innovative technology at airports and other routes can help curb the crime. Syed Mahmood Nasir, Inspector General Forests at Ministry of Climate Change, said this here on Wednesday, while speaking at a consultative workshop on importance […]

• February 11, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

HYDERABAD: Experts at a seminar highlighted the problems faced by marine life. They were speaking at the one-day event held on Wednesday on the “Present Status of Wetlands of Sindh”, organised by the Fresh Water Biology, the fisheries department and University of Sindh in collaboration with the Sindh wildlife department and Sindh Environ­mental Protection Agency […]

• February 6, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

KARACHI: Ghost nets — a fishing gear discarded, lost or abandoned in the marine environment — have become a serious threat to marine life and the fisheries sector and there is a dire need for concerted efforts to remove them, said marine experts at a workshop. Titled ‘Ghost nets and Fisheries of Pakistan’, the workshop […]

• February 4, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

CHITRAL: Unknown poachers hunted a Kashmir markhor in Thuna Thoni area of Gahiret-Golen conservancy here on Tuesday night and fled, leaving carcass of the animal behind after the wildlife department officials chased them. Sub-divisional wildlife officer Irshad Ahmed told Dawn here on Wednesday that after hearing fire shots the watchers of the department on Tuesday […]

• February 1, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Food, Haji Qalandar Khan Lodhi has said that under Billion Tree Plantation campaign 4m saplings will be planted till March this year while 5 million trees will be planted in district Abbottabad. He expressed these views while addressing a function after inaugurating Billion Tree Plantation Project in Government Girls Degree College, […]

• February 1, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

KARACHI: The Sindh Wildlife Department (SWD) recovered at least 90 migratory birds on Sunday while they were being transported illegally to Badin city. Badin district’s SWD team, on a tip-off, recovered the birds from a passenger vehicle plying from villages along the coastal belt to the district headquarters between Lauri Sharif and Kadhan towns. According […]

• February 1, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

KARACHI: Six Arab hunters of houbara bustard with 11 falcons were held by wildlife staffers in Thatta district early on Sunday morning for lack of hunting permits but were released later and sent back to Karachi as they had not yet started hunting the bird, it is learnt here. Sources said the hunters from Qatar […]

• January 30, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

ISLAMABAD: An interministerial and interprovincial committee has set a target of planting 159 million trees across the country in the upcoming spring season. The countrywide plantation drive will kick off from February. The target was set at a meeting chaired by Climate Change Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan, after taking input from representatives of all provincial […]

• January 29, 2016
• Environmental Journalism

Karachi: A seven-foot-long swordfish (Xiphias gladius) was recently caught in the Miani Hor Lagoon located between Damb and Bera areas of Lasbela district of Balochistan. The fish weighing around 56kg was sold for Rs8,800 in a local market in Karachi. “It was caught by Moula Baksh, a sports fisherman, from Karachi. It is unusual to […]