{"id":60858,"date":"2020-02-02T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=60858"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T09:07:59","slug":"plan-formation-declare-churna-island-as-marine-protected-area-stressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plan-formation-declare-churna-island-as-marine-protected-area-stressed.html","title":{"rendered":"Plan formation to declare Churna Island as \u2018marine-protected area\u2019 stressed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The 20<sup>th<\/sup> meeting of the National Coordinating Body (NCB) of Mangroves emphasized conducting a workshop of relevant stakeholders to develop a roadmap for designating Churna island as a \u2018marine-protected area\u2019, a news source reported. The participants further stressed on the formation of more marine protected areas according to the international obligation, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karachis-bulk-water-supply-system-set-for-inauguration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Karachi\u2019s bulk water supply system set for inauguration (opens in a new tab)\">Karachi\u2019s bulk water supply system set for inauguration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naheed Durrani chaired the meeting on Thursday and mentioned the joint efforts of various stakeholders in protecting such areas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ndrmf-approves-pkr-4-9-bn-disaster-management-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF)  (opens in a new tab)\">National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) <\/a>Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lieutenant (retired) General Nadeem Ahmed was a special guest on the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/funds-approved-laying-water-pipelines-karachi-press-club-housing-scheme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Funds approved for laying water pipelines in Karachi Press Club Housing Scheme (opens in a new tab)\">Funds approved for laying water pipelines in Karachi Press Club Housing Scheme<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) \u2013 representative in Pakistan Mahmood Akhtar Cheema welcomed the NCB members and informed the participants that his organization was making efforts to maintain the NCB platform as it was beneficial in maintaining coordination and collaboration among organisations and agencies working on coastal projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-launches-ecosystem-restoration-fund-at-un-summit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pakistan launches Ecosystem Restoration Fund at UN Sum (opens in a new tab)\">Pakistan launches Ecosystem Restoration Fund at UN Sum<\/a>mit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nparticipant informed the meeting regarding the threats to mangroves, including\nsilt deposits, shortage of required freshwater, urbanisation, industrial and\nmunicipal pollution, and cut of mangroves for fodder and fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The 20th meeting of the National Coordinating Body (NCB) of Mangroves emphasized conducting a workshop of relevant stakeholders to develop a roadmap for designating Churna island as a \u2018marine-protected area\u2019, a news source reported. The participants further stressed on the formation of more marine protected areas according to the international obligation, a news source reported. Read: Karachi\u2019s bulk water supply system set for inauguration Naheed Durrani chaired the meeting on Thursday and mentioned the joint efforts of various stakeholders in protecting such areas. National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lieutenant (retired) General Nadeem Ahmed was a special guest on the occasion. Read: Funds approved for laying water pipelines in Karachi Press Club Housing Scheme International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) \u2013 representative in Pakistan Mahmood Akhtar Cheema welcomed the NCB members and informed the participants that his organization was making efforts to maintain the NCB platform as it was beneficial in maintaining coordination and collaboration among organisations and agencies working on coastal projects. Read: Pakistan launches Ecosystem Restoration Fund at UN Summit A participant informed the meeting regarding the threats to mangroves, including silt deposits, shortage of required freshwater, urbanisation, industrial and municipal pollution,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":60866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[17520],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-churna-island-marine-protected-area","9":"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>Plan formation Churna Island as \u2018marine-protected area\u2019 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The 20th meeting of the National Coordinating Body (NCB) of Mangroves emphasized conducting a workshop of relevant stakeholders to develop\" \/>\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\/plan-formation-declare-churna-island-as-marine-protected-area-stressed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plan formation Churna Island as \u2018marine-protected area\u2019 - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The 20th meeting of the National Coordinating Body (NCB) of Mangroves emphasized conducting a workshop of relevant stakeholders to develop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plan-formation-declare-churna-island-as-marine-protected-area-stressed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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