{"id":59809,"date":"2020-01-15T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=59809"},"modified":"2020-01-15T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:25:17","slug":"wwf-p-expresses-interest-collaborate-epd-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wwf-p-expresses-interest-collaborate-epd-punjab.html","title":{"rendered":"WWF-P expresses interest to collaborate with EPD Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan (WWF-P) has expressed its interest for collaborating with the Environment Protection Department (EPD) Punjab for issues pertaining to forests, a news source reported. The aim of WWF-P\u2019s collaboration with EPD is to ensure a world where forests become valued not just for their wood supply, but other benefits they offered to nature and humans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wwf-reaches-out-ragpickers-waste-free-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWF reaches out to ragpickers for a \u2018waste-free Pakistan\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this regard, WWF-P Senior Director Masoor Arshad led a delegation from his organisation, and called upon Punjab Minister EPD Muhammad Rizwan on Tuesday. In the meeting, they discussed thematic goals for forests, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/survey-launched-identify-endangered-wildlife-species.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildlife <\/a>conservation efforts, freshwater ecology, and environmental compliance in Small &amp; Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The representatives also discussed in detail the implantation of wetland and water replenishment initiatives, environmental laws and governance, and the potential collaboration between WWF-P and EPD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/experts-recommend-management-plan-for-protected-astola-island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Experts recommend management plan for protected Astola Island<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Arshad highlighted that WWF-P was a global environmental conservation organisation with the aim to protect nature and ecological processes via preservation of genetic, ecosystem, and species diversity. He added they also aimed to ensure that the use of renewable natural resources remained sustainable both now and in the longer term. He said that their goals included the promotion of actions to cut down pollution, as well as wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy.<\/p>\n<p>The WWF-P director informed the meeting that with better management, planning, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/chainsaw-usage-banned-south-waziristan-protect-forests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protection<\/a>, they can continue to benefit from forests, and not damage the environment at the same time. He added that they could also replant and restore the damaged or degraded forest in order to fight climate change, reduce problems such as erosion and flooding, and extend and reconnect the wildlife habitats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachi-wins-wwfs-one-planet-city-challenge-award-for-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karachi wins WWF\u2019s \u2018One Planet City Challenge Award\u2019 for 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He stressed that climate change was a bitter reality \u2013 posing threat to both current and future generations. He invited nature-based solutions like the promotion of renewable energy, conservation of water resources, and large-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wwf-js-bank-launch-mangrove-plantation-drive-balochistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plantation drives<\/a> for overcoming this challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan (WWF-P) has expressed its interest for collaborating with the Environment Protection Department (EPD) Punjab for issues pertaining to forests, a news source reported. The aim of WWF-P\u2019s collaboration with EPD is to ensure a world where forests become valued not just for their wood supply, but other benefits they offered to nature and humans. Read:\u00a0WWF reaches out to ragpickers for a \u2018waste-free Pakistan\u2019 In this regard, WWF-P Senior Director Masoor Arshad led a delegation from his organisation, and called upon Punjab Minister EPD Muhammad Rizwan on Tuesday. In the meeting, they discussed thematic goals for forests, wildlife conservation efforts, freshwater ecology, and environmental compliance in Small &amp; Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector of Pakistan. The representatives also discussed in detail the implantation of wetland and water replenishment initiatives, environmental laws and governance, and the potential collaboration between WWF-P and EPD. Read:\u00a0Experts recommend management plan for protected Astola Island During the meeting, Arshad highlighted that WWF-P was a global environmental conservation organisation with the aim to protect nature and ecological processes via preservation of genetic, ecosystem, and species diversity. He added they also aimed to ensure that the use of renewable natural resources remained&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":46044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14988],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-wwf-p-expresses-interest-to-collaborate-with-epd-punjab"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WWF-P expresses interest to collaborate with EPD Punjab - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan (WWF-P) has expressed its interest for collaborating with the Environment Protection Department (EPD)\" \/>\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\/wwf-p-expresses-interest-collaborate-epd-punjab.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WWF-P expresses interest to collaborate with EPD Punjab - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan (WWF-P) has expressed its interest for collaborating with the Environment Protection Department (EPD)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wwf-p-expresses-interest-collaborate-epd-punjab.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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