{"id":58657,"date":"2019-12-13T16:37:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58657"},"modified":"2020-08-21T17:35:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:35:49","slug":"na-committee-calls-for-demolition-of-illegal-structures-on-margalla-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/na-committee-calls-for-demolition-of-illegal-structures-on-margalla-hills.html","title":{"rendered":"NA committee calls for demolition of illegal structures on Margalla Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Climate Change on Thursday recommended that all illegal structures located within the Margalla Hills National Park should be demolished, according to a news report.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/margalla-hills-society-seeks-land-transfer-ban-reinstatement-in-zone-iii.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Margalla Hills Society seeks land transfer ban reinstatement in Zone III<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The members of this committee made this recommendation during one of its meetings. They stated that these measures are in accordance with the Islamabad Wildlife (Protection, Preservation, Conservation, and Management) Ordinance 1979.<\/p>\n<p>This ordinance was put in place after the Margalla Hills National Park (MNHP) was established in 1979, and provides for the protection, conservation, preservation, and management of the area\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/survey-launched-identify-endangered-wildlife-species.html\">flora and fauna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/hotel-construction-outlawed-margalla-hills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotel constructions outlawed in Margalla Hills<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chairperson of the committee MNA Munaza Hassan stated that commercial activities in MNHP were destroying the natural environment and the habitat of a variety of wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist Bilal Haque briefed the meeting about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/green-pakistan-programme-aims-protect-wildlife-pm-khan.html\">wildlife<\/a> in MNHP. He stated that due to its 1,700 flowering plants and 50 species of grass, apart from numerous valuable wild animals, this park is an irreplaceable natural resource, and must be protected at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/margalla-hills-losing-wildlife.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Margalla hills losing wildlife<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was revealed in the meeting that MNHP was in danger from the uncontrolled expansion activities of the surrounding dwellings. The committee discussed that national parks all over the world are governed by strict regulations that preserve their environment, and such rules should be implemented in MNHP as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Climate Change on Thursday recommended that all illegal structures located within the Margalla Hills National Park should be demolished, according to a news report. Read: Margalla Hills Society seeks land transfer ban reinstatement in Zone III The members of this committee made this recommendation during one of its meetings. They stated that these measures are in accordance with the Islamabad Wildlife (Protection, Preservation, Conservation, and Management) Ordinance 1979. This ordinance was put in place after the Margalla Hills National Park (MNHP) was established in 1979, and provides for the protection, conservation, preservation, and management of the area\u2019s flora and fauna. Read: Hotel constructions outlawed in Margalla Hills Chairperson of the committee MNA Munaza Hassan stated that commercial activities in MNHP were destroying the natural environment and the habitat of a variety of wildlife. Environmentalist Bilal Haque briefed the meeting about the wildlife in MNHP. He stated that due to its 1,700 flowering plants and 50 species of grass, apart from numerous valuable wild animals, this park is an irreplaceable natural resource, and must be protected at all costs. Read: Margalla hills losing wildlife It was revealed in the meeting that MNHP was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[3756,14421,14422],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-margalla-hills","9":"tag-na","10":"tag-wildlife","11":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NA committee calls for demolition of illegal structures on Margalla Hills - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Climate Change on Thursday recommended that all illegal structures located within the Margalla\" \/>\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\/na-committee-calls-for-demolition-of-illegal-structures-on-margalla-hills.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NA committee calls for demolition of illegal structures on Margalla Hills - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Climate Change on Thursday recommended that all illegal structures located within the Margalla\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/na-committee-calls-for-demolition-of-illegal-structures-on-margalla-hills.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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