{"id":83113,"date":"2022-01-17T12:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=83113"},"modified":"2022-01-17T16:54:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T11:54:57","slug":"kp-11-protected-areas-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-11-protected-areas-biodiversity.html","title":{"rendered":"KP notifies 11 new protected areas to conserve biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has notified 11 sites as \u2018protected areas\u2019 increasing the total coverage from 10.22 % to 14.91 %, news sources reported. The notified areas include three new national parks, five conservancies and four sites of special scientific interest. \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-swat-motorway-phase-ii.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP approves draft agreement of Swat Motorway Phase-II<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to official sources, the move will improve protected areas and encourage forest and animal protection. It was also highlighted the administration plans to establish six more national parks in the next months, increasing the province&#8217;s protected area coverage to 17% as per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mountain-conservation-stressed-minister-climate-change.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"59137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UN Convention on Biological Diversity agreement<\/a>. Under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife and Biodiversity (Protection, Preservation, Conservation, and Management) Act, 2015, the government has designated land in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, and Kohat divisions as protected areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three newly designated national parks are as follows:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A national park with an area of 5,236 hectares has been notified as a protected area in the Nizampur, Nowshera<\/li><li>A national park with an area of 19,971.76 acres has been established in the Mansehra district&nbsp;<\/li><li>A national park of 5,455.82 acres has been established in the Mansehra district&#8217;s Kamal Ban area<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-tourism-week-kicks-off.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dubai Expo 2020: KP\u2019s Tourism Week kicks off<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the government has designated places as conservancies in Swat, Kalam, Terich Torkhow in Upper Chitral, Kumrat valley in Upper Dir, and Dir Kohistan in Upper Dir. In the districts of Buner, Swat, and Haripur, four sites of particular scientific interest have been recognized.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has notified 11 sites as \u2018protected areas\u2019 increasing the total coverage from 10.22 % to 14.91 %, news sources reported. The notified areas include three new national parks, five conservancies and four sites of special scientific interest. \u00a0 Read: KP approves draft agreement of Swat Motorway Phase-II According to official sources, the move will improve protected areas and encourage forest and animal protection. It was also highlighted the administration plans to establish six more national parks in the next months, increasing the province&#8217;s protected area coverage to 17% as per the UN Convention on Biological Diversity agreement. Under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife and Biodiversity (Protection, Preservation, Conservation, and Management) Act, 2015, the government has designated land in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, and Kohat divisions as protected areas.\u00a0 The three newly designated national parks are as follows:&nbsp;&nbsp; A national park with an area of 5,236 hectares has been notified as a protected area in the Nizampur, Nowshera A national park with an area of 19,971.76 acres has been established in the Mansehra district&nbsp; A national park of 5,455.82 acres has been established in the Mansehra district&#8217;s Kamal Ban area Read: Dubai Expo 2020: KP\u2019s Tourism Week kicks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":75428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[14704,39898,50573],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-biodiversity","9":"tag-biodiversity-conservation-database","10":"tag-kp-notified-11-new-protected-areas-to-conserve-biodiversity","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>KP notified 11 new protected areas to conserve biodiversity- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has notified 11 sites as \u2018protected areas\u2019 increasing the total coverage from 10.22 % to 14.91 %, news sources\" \/>\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\/kp-11-protected-areas-biodiversity.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KP notified 11 new protected areas to conserve biodiversity- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has notified 11 sites as \u2018protected areas\u2019 increasing the total coverage from 10.22 % to 14.91 %, news sources\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-11-protected-areas-biodiversity.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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