Tag: Trees

The Islamabad Gold Club management has decided to sell out over 400 precious Sheesham trees that have fallen down during the last couple of...

Sindh Minister for Environment Shaikh Muhammad Afzal has said that increasing environmental pollution has become a threat to the country in general and for...

A number of expensive date palms planted by the Punjab government only last year at the busy thoroughfare between the shrine of Hazrat Data...

Individuals as well as the timber mafia are busy in chopping of trees in various areas of the federal capital, destroying the green look...

A division bench of Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered status quo on Thursday in a petition against cutting of green trees along the Shahrah-e-Faisal. After...

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is making ‘concrete’ efforts to conserve the historical trees and archeological sites in the city in order to help...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has given conditional permission for cutting of trees for construction of a road adjacent to the bank of BRB...

The Lahore Arts Council, in collaboration with the Kinnaird College for Women, organised an exhibition of photographs of sacred Sikh shrines in both India...

If the civil society had won their argument with the Punjab government on their objections to cutting down the trees lining Canal Road and...

Timber mafia is busy in tree chopping in Murree and adjacent tehsils while the Department of Forest remain indifferent to the law violations. Timber...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday restrained the Punjab government and Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) from cutting trees at a greenbelt in...

The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) on Saturday announced a province-wide, week-long protest (May 10 to 17) to mourn the deaths of its leaders Abdul...

LAHORE - Government College University (GCU), Lahore Botany Department on Saturday announced that it will plant around 11,000 trees at the university's 400-acre Kala Shah Kaku (KSK) Campus during its three-day plantation drive, which will start from Monday. GCU Botany Department Chairman Dr Zaheeruddin Khan said that more than 800 students have volunteered for the three-day plantation drive. He said that GCU botanists and gardeners will lead and guide the students to ensure propoer

LAHORE - Millions of spiders have crawled into trees in the flood-hit areas to escape flood waters, shrouding them with their silky webs, according to a report in Daily Mail. The eye-catching phenomenon is an unexpected side-effect of last year's flooding which claimed the lives of almost 2,000 people. However, since the monsoon weather devastated the nation last July, much of the water has still not yet receded. The tiny arachnids have sought refuge amongst the trees weaving

Officials at TEPA are both imagining it - and adamant about creating it. The reason: growing traffic and an underdeveloped public transport system.
The Lahore canal is the link artery of the city's traffic. It remains the most straightforward route to any of the cities main residential and commercial hubs. The entire length of the city is divided by the canal.
But is it only the convenience that draws a commuter to the canal - and not the urban callosity known to be the

LAHORE - The recent floods in Pakistan have been blamed on the deforestation in the Northern Areas. However, experts say that floods are only one aspect of the problem, because the less the number of trees the more effect global warming will have on Pakistan. But on a further micro level, the importance of trees is not being promoted by the government. Ironically while the government's forest department puts up banners that encourage tree plantation, in an unprecedented move some of