ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Division on Wednesday approved the Plant Breeders Rights Act 2015, giving protection to seed breeding companies with an amendment to protect farmers from the provision of substandard seeds. The proposed law is aimed at establishing a viable seed industry in Pakistan, essential for food security and availability of […]
MULTAN: The Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) on Wednesday called on the government to declare a state of water emergency nationwide. MCCI president Farid Mughees Sheikh said the country would have to grapple with an acute water crisis in a decade if steps were not taken to increase storage capacity. Sheikh said the […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government concluded its arguments in the houbara bustard case on Wednesday, with the attorney general (AG) asking the Supreme Court to allow “sustainable hunting” of the bird. A five-judge larger bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali is hearing the federal and provincial governments’ review petition against […]
ISLAMABAD: The top judge has formed a five-member larger bench to hear the government’s review petition against the apex court’s decision to ban hunting of the endangered houbara bustard in Pakistan. The case will be taken up today (Wednesday). The Supreme Court chief justice will head the bench himself. The other members are justices Mian […]
KARACHI: Two Indo-pacific humpback dolphins continue to be stranded in Gharo Creek as they cannot escape due to possible barriers near the Harjina Bridge. The two dolphins, common in the coastal belt, have been seen in the creek near Gharo city by local fishermen. Thinking they could make money by selling the mammals, villagers tried […]
One of the rejoicing outcomes of the Paris Agreement on climate change is endowment of due and fair share to adaptation as a key policy instrument of the international climate change policy and as for Pakistan’s contribution in this global exercise, it merits mention that Pakistan played an instrumental role in Paris for securing adaptation […]
SUKKUR: Initially, the Indus dolphins were not blind but muddy the water and pollution in the river proved hazardous, turning the mammal blind, said Indus Dolphin Conservation Centre Sukkur incharge, Mir Akhtar Talpur, while speaking at an Indus River dolphin awareness event on Sunday. After the dolphins lost their sight, Mother Nature’s gift of an […]
KARACHI: The federal government has issued special permits to two members of the ruling family of Qatar to import and export 80 falcons of endangered species for moulting purpose, it emerged here on Sunday. Moulting, a natural process during which falcons shed their feathers and regrow new feathers. Conservationists feared that as after the moulting […]
ISLAMABAD: Environ-mental and beekeeping experts have termed rising temperature and unseasonal rains as the major causes of destruction of honeybees and reduction in honey production. The Pallas valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kohistan district is home to the bees. The honey harvested by the locals provides livelihood for the community but over the past few years […]
KARACHI: Although experts are calling for an action and rescue of the ‘protected animals’ kept in miserable conditions at a family festival where they are currently being used for public entertainment, the wildlife department staff has expressed its “inability to act”, it emerged on Friday. The carnival in progress in Gulistan-i-Jauhar for some two weeks […]
KARACHI: A number of animals protected under the provincial wildlife law have been on display for ‘public entertainment’ at a family festival in Gulistan-i-Jauhar for the past two weeks, it emerged on Wednesday. Located near Jauhar Chowrangi, the festival held in an open ground also features joyrides and different fun activities for children. Locked up […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has directed the Punjab chief secretary to take immediate steps for setting up of the Bioremediation Project in the Ravi. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah also ordered the chief secretary to proceed with recommendations of the River Ravi Commission to protect fundamental rights of citizens of Lahore and the aquatic […]
KARACHI: Four houbara bustards were seized by Rangers personnel during checking of an intercity bus in the Mochko area on Monday. The birds were later handed over to the wildlife department. “The birds were found abandoned in the bus coming from Kharan, Balochistan. A case has been registered but no arrest has been made,” said […]
Houbara Foundation International Pakistan will soon release 220 Houbara bustards bred in Abu Dhabi. These birds are from the blood-line of Pakistan’s resident species and are being donated by the International Fund for Houbara Conservation based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to augment Pakistan’s current population of the species in the wild. It was decided in […]
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