{"id":57902,"date":"2019-11-24T09:48:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T04:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=57902"},"modified":"2019-11-22T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:54:08","slug":"sindh-finalises-new-policy-expand-forest-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-finalises-new-policy-expand-forest-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"Sindh finalises new policy to expand forest cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh government has announced its intention to implement a new forest policy in its efforts to protect and expand the province\u2019s forest cover, a news source reported. The \u2018Sindh Sustainable Forest Management Policy\u2019, as this framework is to be named, was formulated following the Supreme Court\u2019s directives in which it had ordered the retrieval of encroached forest land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-govt-to-launch-urban-forestry-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sindh govt to launch urban forestry project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The apex court had ordered the provincial executive to retrieve the said and initiate afforestation efforts on an urgent basis. The process needs to begin as soon as possible because there is a possibility that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/seventy-thousand-acres-of-forest-land-allotted-illegally-in-sindh-sc-told.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vacated land<\/a> might be re-encroached since it is too vast and remote to easily manage in the kacha areas of Sindh. The total land available for afforestation in the province is somewhere around 600,000 acres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-forest-department-to-upgrade-its-forestry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sindh forest department to upgrade its forestry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The policy proposes protection of existing forest stock in irrigated plantations and riverine as well as community engagement in the afforestation process to hasten the process. Any alternate to community engagement is a hefty financial investment which will be difficult for the government to implement and manage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh government has announced its intention to implement a new forest policy in its efforts to protect and expand the province\u2019s forest cover, a news source reported. The \u2018Sindh Sustainable Forest Management Policy\u2019, as this framework is to be named, was formulated following the Supreme Court\u2019s directives in which it had ordered the retrieval of encroached forest land. Read:\u00a0Sindh govt to launch urban forestry project The apex court had ordered the provincial executive to retrieve the said and initiate afforestation efforts on an urgent basis. The process needs to begin as soon as possible because there is a possibility that the vacated land might be re-encroached since it is too vast and remote to easily manage in the kacha areas of Sindh. The total land available for afforestation in the province is somewhere around 600,000 acres. Read:\u00a0Sindh forest department to upgrade its forestry The policy proposes protection of existing forest stock in irrigated plantations and riverine as well as community engagement in the afforestation process to hasten the process. Any alternate to community engagement is a hefty financial investment which will be difficult for the government to implement and manage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":5951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14085],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-sindh-finalises-new-policy-to-expand-forest-cover"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sindh finalises new policy to expand forest cover - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh government has announced its intention to implement a new forest policy in its efforts to protect and expand the province\u2019s forest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-finalises-new-policy-expand-forest-cover.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sindh finalises new policy to expand forest cover - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh government has announced its intention to implement a new forest policy in its efforts to protect and expand the province\u2019s forest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-finalises-new-policy-expand-forest-cover.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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