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The Cycling Silk expedition launches today, a year-long, two-woman field research expedition that aims to explore and promote wilderness conservation and connectivity across borders. Over the course of 2011, Kate Harris and Melissa Yule, both young wilderness conservationists, are riding nearly…

Islamabad – January 18, 2011 ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ��, International Union for Conservation of Nature inaugurated a two-day Workshop on Upper Lower Riparian Issues and Options at Islamabad We need mutual trust and science based multi-stakeholder dialogues to understand and resolve upper lower riparian issues and…

Development of water resources in the Eastern Himalaya region is expanding at a rapid rate and there is a serious lack of information to guide conservation and development planning. This is putting freshwater ecosystems and the species within them at risk, along with the livelihoods and…

The world’s forests are essential to life in all its diversity and to attaining humanity’s biggest goals such as reducing poverty, curbing climate change and achieving sustainable development. Throughout 2011 ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� will work towards making sure that forests deliver their maximum potential for…

Governments at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, managed to approve a series of tangible if modest steps that set up a 'global climate fund' to help poor nations create a mechanism to share clean technologies, protect tropical forests and help the poor adapt to impacts ranging from storms…

Governments need to put more attention and resources into making sure vulnerable people get their fair share of benefits from REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), according to ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ��.

Preliminary analysis shows that an estimated 1.5 billion hectares of the world’s lost and degraded forests, an area almost the size of Russia, could be restored. This is the result of the latest global research, which now needs to be expanded at a national level to identify specific on the…

'Lives of the Forest' is a new video created by indigenous activists from across the Asia Pacific region exploring the likely impacts of the UN's REDD programme on indigenous resources and lifestyles.  It was created during a participatory video facilitator training in Ifugao (Philippines) by…

Ziarat, October 29, 2010 (������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ��) – ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Pakistan Ziarat undertook the first ever survey of wildlife focusing on wild ungulates inhabiting the area. The purpose of the survey was to confirm occurrence of surviving population of Straight-horned Suleman Markhor -Capra falconerijerdoni in the…

Karachi, November 22, 2010 ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� Pakistan under its Balochistan Partnerships for Sustainable Development Programme inaugurated a 4-Day workshop titled: “Finalization of Strategic Plan for Conservation of Marine Turtles in Pakistan” at a local hotel in Karachi.