Story | 15 Oct, 2021
IUCN Introduces Climate Change Planning into Balochistan Government Ranks
A 5-Day Training Workshop concluded here today in Karachi, imparting key lessons and techniques in climate change adaptation and mitigation to officials from different line departments of the Balochistan Government.
Story | 24 Sep, 2021
Adapting to Salinity in the Southern Indus Basin project launched in Karachi
The launch of the ‘Adapting to Salinity in the Southern Indus Basin (ASSIB’) project, funded by the Australian government through the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), took place at a local hotel in Karachi today by way of a stakeholder inception workshop…
Story | 26 Jul, 2021
Mangroves are known as the sentinels of the coast, and Pakistan is blessed to have a growing mangrove cover along its 990 kilometer coast and creeks of the Indus Delta. These mangroves have a very close relation to the humans inhabiting the coast, whose lives they enrich by providing them marine…
Story | 26 Jul, 2021
Women hold up half the sky…. This is usually said when someone needs to be reminded of the important role they play in life. As a matter of fact, due to the gender roles assigned to them by the society, they shoulder more than half the responsibilities which include the work outside the limited…
Story | 14 Jul, 2021
The experts at national stakeholder consultation on July 13, 2021 demanded to create massive stakeholder and policymakers’ level sensitization for implementing effective Gender Action Plan aimed at supporting women of vulnerable communities facing livelihood loss due to environmental degradation…
Story | 04 Jun, 2021
IUCN Member Organisations and Partners gathered at Keti Bunder – the Guinness World Record site to commemorate World Environment Day 2021. Senator (r) Javed Jabbar, former IUCN Vice President and Regional Councillor Asia was the chief guest at…
Story | 28 May, 2021
100,000 Nature jobs on cards - Pakistan targeting ecosystem restoration
Webinar organized by Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan, IUCN, OXFAM and PNC member organizations
Press release | 21 May, 2021
A meeting of IUCN Pakistan Members Committee was organized virtually on May 20, 2021. Members from all the four provinces and Azad Jammu and Kashmir participated in the meeting.
Story | 28 Apr, 2021
Protection study of the Vjosa River Valley based on IUCN protected area standards now available
There is a need to protect the Vjosa River Valley along its full length, including its tributaries - confirms the new IUCN WCPA authored study.