More than 30 scientists of The Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH) are engaged in educating nature lovers, students and the general public on environmental issues and the importance of its protection. The purpose of informing the public is to create awareness among people pertaining to the biodiversity of Pakistan with special reference to environmental and natural habitat degradation. With special displays of various species of plants, animals, minerals and wildlife, the museum is a major attraction for school trips and nature lovers who get excellent glimpses of natural history with sufficient information PMNH scientists have discovered a number of new Plants and animal species and have published a number of research articles in journals of international repute.An official stated that a large number of natural history specimens of plants, animals, rocks, minerals and fossils have already been collected and curated.
Highly productive collaboration research programmes with many foreign countries are also in progress, such as those with USA, UK, Japan France and Switzerland.
PMNH has displayed galleries with a number of dioramas and other exhibits Official said that they regularly publish natural history brochures, leaflets, bulletins and posters for mass education. PMNH also assists in setting up natural history corners as well as designing and setting up large-scale exhibitions and expos.
