People's role in forest policy urged

  • 01/12/2001

The Youth Welfare Society for Protection of Forests, Upper Dir, has asked Pakistan government to involve the inhabitants of forest areas in finalizing the draft of the NWFP forest ordinance and provincial forest policy. Society spokesman Amir Mohammad Khan said the forestry sector reforms were aimed at involving the stakeholders, especially the forest owners, in the process of evolving a durable policy.