The global Living Planet Index continues to decline. It shows an average 68% decrease in population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish between 1970 and 2016. A 94% decline in the LPI for the tropical sub regions of the Americas is the largest fall observed in any part …
A man was arrested on Tuesday in Lahore city by the Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department for illegally capturing and trading wild lizard species. According to a World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P)s spokesman, Khushi Muhammad, a local belonging to Lahore, was arrested when over a dozen protected spiny tail …
The Punjab Forest Department and Engro Polymer and Chemicals Limited (EPCL) on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the Chaanga Maanga Forest for implementing a plantation project. According to the MoU, the Forest Department will provide the land for the project, while the EPCL will provide financial and …
Overfishing will wipe out the breeding population of Atlantic bluefin tuna, one of the ocean's largest and fastest predators, in three years unless catches are dramatically reduced, conservation group WWF said on Tuesday. As European fishing fleets prepare to begin the two-month Mediterranean fishing season on Wednesday, WWF said its …
The Indus Development Organisation has given an offer to the Sindh government and forest department that if Khebrani and Rais Mureed forests are declared lease-free forests, the organisation will undertake to rehabilitate them for the benefit of livestock owners whose livelihood depends on the forests. Speaking at a news conference, …
World leaders at the G20 summit disappointed environmental groups on Thursday who said their commitment to fight climate change had been vague. The leaders reaffirmed a previous commitment to sign a U.N. climate deal this year, a step the U.N. climate-change chief said was useful, though action would be better. …
New Delhi: On March 28, when Delhi turns its lights off at 8.30 pm, the Dilli Haat at INA will come alive. Not with the usual blaze of lights but soft candle lights and solar lanterns. On the occasion of Earth Hour, expected to be the biggest voluntary movement Delhi …
New Delhi: Corporates and NGOs have decided to come together to work on, and connect, two burning causes: the girl child and trees. Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Sunday inaugurated
Mumbai Did you know there were 70 lakes in Mumbai but 67 of them are found surrounded with vegetation? Or that 53 per cent of lakes are encroached upon by local residents, of which 21 per cent is handed over to builders and about 26 per cent to government agencies. …
Udhagamandalam: A ten-day advanced training programme on Geographical Information System (GIS) organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for conservationists in various Asian countries got under way here on Monday. Speaking to The Hindu, the Coordinator, WWF, the Nilgiris, N. Mohanraj, said that 24 persons from ten Asian …
This paper focuses on the shifting contours of the anti-Tehri dam movement in the past three decades. It examines the changing declarations of environmentalists, especially Sunderlal Bahuguna and other leaders of the movement on the one hand, and the involvement of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in the anti-dam politics on …
Staff Report LAHORE: The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) demanded that the government revitalise environment as a separate segment in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper II (PRSP). The WWF, while praising the government for declaring 2009 the year of the environment questioned how it would incorporate environmental indicators in …
