Tag: Trees
WWF-Pakistan pledges to plant 1.4 million trees by August 2019
LAHORE: WWF-Pakistan has pledged to plant 1.4 million trees by August 2019 through the active participation of different stakeholders, local communities and passionate individuals.
The campaign,...
‘Green gold’: KP plants hundreds of millions of trees
HEROSHAH: The change is drastic: around the region of Heroshah, previously arid hills are now covered with forest as far as the horizon. In...
Japanese researchers invent ‘wood alcohol’
TOKYO: Discerning drinkers may soon be able to branch out after Japanese researchers said Tuesday they have invented a way of producing an alcoholic...
As trees in Islamabad disappear, its children lead a green offensive
ISLAMABAD: Upset by the felling of many of Islamabad’s trees – victims of rapid urbanisation - the city’s children are fighting back with a...
Democracy can flourish with collective efforts: Mushahid
ISLAMABAD: Climate Change Federal Minister Mushahidullah Khan has said that the tree of democracy can flourish only with the collaboration of all political actors.
He...
CDA launches spring tree plantation campaign
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) environment wing in collaboration with climate change ministry Thursday launched spring tree plantation campaign 2018 here at Fatima Jinnah...
CM Murad orders development of forest blocks near Karachi, Hyderabad
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the forest department to develop two separate blocks of forests – each one spreading over...
Protests continue, as trees fall to development in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: As the capital has expanded, with the construction of ever more homes and businesses and with roads being widened to accommodate growing traffic, the...
Pakistan’s first national wildlife policy to be formulated: Mushahidullah Khan
ISLAMABAD: Climate Change Federal Minister, Senator Mushahidullah Khan on Thursday instructed the Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) Forest and Wildlife Department to formulate the...
36,000 trees ‘sacrificed’ to lay power lines, albeit law, environmental damage
CHITRAL: Over 3,600 green trees, including walnut, apricot, grapes and peach, have been cut in Broz village of Chitral for laying the transmission lines of...
Punjab govt to plant 14 million trees in 2017
The Punjab Forest Department has started planting trees on Thursday under the Green Pakistan Programme to improve the country’s forest cover.
This programme is the...
New library at KU: KU teachers fear new library may disfigure...
by AMIR MAJEED
Karachi University’s (KU) professors have started a campaign against the construction of a new library which they think may spoil the beauty of...
Tree plantation in DMC-Central
The administration of Karachi District Municipal Corporation (DMC-Central) on Sunday initiated a tree plantation drive.
DMC-Central Chairman Rehan Hashmi planted saplings at Hyderi in North...
Negligence causes damage to `Billion Tree’ project in KP
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's `Billion Tree Tsunami' project has been marred by the local authorities' negligence as thousands of tree-saplings planted in Peshawar's Regi Lalma have...
The biggest beneficiary of the war on terror – the trees!
The people of South Waziristan Agency lost almost everything, as people’s homes were razed to the ground and families were broken apart during the...
Save the trees!
Timber mafia play havoc in Murree forests, Forest Deptt officials watch
The timber mafia is active in cutting old and precious trees in forests around...
Illegal cutting of trees, plants from Islamabad green belts on the...
Plants and trees on green belts of roads of the federal capital are being stolen, while the CDA has failed to take any effective...
