{"id":84651,"date":"2022-03-17T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=84651"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:08:33","slug":"kp-5-protected-areas-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-5-protected-areas-coverage.html","title":{"rendered":"KP registers 5% increase in protected areas coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Wildlife and Biodiversity Board has announced a 5% increase in provincial protected areas land coverage over the last few years, news sources reported on March 13. The province has now 15% forest cover spanning over an area of\u00a0 1,564,000 hectares of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/tourists-to-get-better-facilities-in-khyber-pakhtunwa.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37431\">Tourists to get better facilities in Khyber Pakhtunwa<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, During a meeting, the wildlife department informed KP Chief Minister (CM) Mehmood Khan that forest cover has increased to sustainable levels as a consequence of continued monitoring and policy reforms. This growth will aid in increasing the province&#8217;s biodiversity. The meeting was also informed that the province now has nine national parks,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/survey-launched-identify-endangered-wildlife-species.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"56764\"> 87 community game reserves, 38 public game reserves<\/a>, five conservancies, three wildlife sanctuaries, two wildlife refuges, and four areas of special scientific interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/newly-emerged-island-in-gwadar-could-be-a-temporary-formation.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1797\">Newly emerged island in Gwadar could be a temporary formation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the wildlife board is taking steps to make progress in establishing certain other suitable sites of the province as protected areas, including Rakh Topi National Park, Gusarrh National Park, Bashkar Gol Biosphere Reserve, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-khan-inaugurates-two-national-parks-in-gilgit-baltistan.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"72503\"> Koh-i-Suleman Conservancy<\/a>. The KP provincial cabinet recently approved a policy for developing road infrastructure in protected areas in order to make it more feasible and ecologically beneficial.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Wildlife and Biodiversity Board has announced a 5% increase in provincial protected areas land coverage over the last few years, news sources reported on March 13. The province has now 15% forest cover spanning over an area of\u00a0 1,564,000 hectares of land. Read: Tourists to get better facilities in Khyber Pakhtunwa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reportedly, During a meeting, the wildlife department informed KP Chief Minister (CM) Mehmood Khan that forest cover has increased to sustainable levels as a consequence of continued monitoring and policy reforms. This growth will aid in increasing the province&#8217;s biodiversity. The meeting was also informed that the province now has nine national parks, 87 community game reserves, 38 public game reserves, five conservancies, three wildlife sanctuaries, two wildlife refuges, and four areas of special scientific interest.\u00a0 Read: Newly emerged island in Gwadar could be a temporary formation In addition, the wildlife board is taking steps to make progress in establishing certain other suitable sites of the province as protected areas, including Rakh Topi National Park, Gusarrh National Park, Bashkar Gol Biosphere Reserve, and Koh-i-Suleman Conservancy. The KP provincial cabinet recently approved a policy for developing road infrastructure in protected areas in order to make&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[51587,51586,21182,2880],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environent-policy-kp","9":"tag-kp-forest","10":"tag-kp-tourism","11":"tag-kpk-government","12":"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 registers 5% increase in protected areas coverage - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Wildlife and Biodiversity Board has announced a 5% increase in provincial protected areas land coverage over the\" \/>\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-5-protected-areas-coverage.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KP registers 5% increase in protected areas coverage - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Wildlife and Biodiversity Board has announced a 5% increase in provincial protected areas land coverage over the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-5-protected-areas-coverage.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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