{"id":70229,"date":"2020-09-13T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=70229"},"modified":"2020-09-10T10:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:49:56","slug":"plan-in-the-making-to-preserve-native-vegetation-at-margalla-hills-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plan-in-the-making-to-preserve-native-vegetation-at-margalla-hills-national-park.html","title":{"rendered":"Plan \u2018in the making\u2019 to preserve native vegetation at Margalla Hills National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Ministry of Climate Change has approved a proposal to help protect, preserve and conserve native vegetation and tree cover in the Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP) \u2013 under Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan\u2019s Clean Green Programme, according to a news source published on September 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/drought-hit-areas-to-be-planted-with-olive-trees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drought-hit areas to be planted with olive trees<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the implementation of this project, the scientific committee of Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) has been asked to prepare its recommendations. Sources revealed that the federal government will join hands with various philanthropists to fund the project \u2013 with the government bearing the heavier share of the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-allocate-500-mn-forest-cover.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP Govt allocates PKR 500mn to increase forest cover<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/two-leopard-species-margalla-hills.html\" target=\"_blank\"> MHNP <\/a>encompasses a total area of 175 square kilometres with 120 square kilometres consisting of the Margalla Hills. The Clean Green Programme \u2013 with help from the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) \u2013 seeks to take the appropriate actions to decrease wildfire incidents and illegal cutting of wood from the national park. Additionally, this latest initiative will also eliminate various invasive botanical species and would preserve the native vegetation at Margalla Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Ministry of Climate Change has approved a proposal to help protect, preserve and conserve native vegetation and tree cover in the Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP) \u2013 under Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan\u2019s Clean Green Programme, according to a news source published on September 7. Read: Drought-hit areas to be planted with olive trees For the implementation of this project, the scientific committee of Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) has been asked to prepare its recommendations. Sources revealed that the federal government will join hands with various philanthropists to fund the project \u2013 with the government bearing the heavier share of the cost. Read: KP Govt allocates PKR 500mn to increase forest cover Moreover, the MHNP encompasses a total area of 175 square kilometres with 120 square kilometres consisting of the Margalla Hills. The Clean Green Programme \u2013 with help from the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) \u2013 seeks to take the appropriate actions to decrease wildfire incidents and illegal cutting of wood from the national park. Additionally, this latest initiative will also eliminate various invasive botanical species and would preserve the native vegetation at Margalla Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":64944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,15016],"tags":[29780,39010],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-new-developments","9":"tag-margalla-hills-national-park","10":"tag-plan-to-preserve-native-vegetation-at-margalla-hills","11":"cat-15181-id","12":"cat-15016-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 to preserve native vegetation at Margalla Hills - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ministry of Climate Change has approved a proposal to help protect and conserve native vegetation and tree cover in the Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP)\" \/>\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-in-the-making-to-preserve-native-vegetation-at-margalla-hills-national-park.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plan to preserve native vegetation at Margalla Hills - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ministry of Climate Change has approved a proposal to help protect and conserve native vegetation and tree cover in the Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plan-in-the-making-to-preserve-native-vegetation-at-margalla-hills-national-park.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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