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In a flurry of activity over the last 18 months, Pakistani administrators have established three new high mountain national parks in the Northern Areas. Previously there was only one, the Khunjerab National Park, established in 1975.
The governmental action to bring more areas under protection, under the aegis of the Northern Areas Wildlife Act of 1975, seems directed...
This report is based on the external evaluation of the Mount Elgon Integrated Conservation and Development Project carried out from 29 January to 16 February 2001 by a team of three independent consultants. The evaluation included interviews at the national level and a field visit to the project area of nine days. The report explores the context in which the project is carried out, and...
Thirty five people, drawn from Government, NGOs, commercial companies, community organisations and intergovernmental organisations, participated in the workshop, which was organised by the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International, a regional network of NGOs under their EU funded regional eco-forestry project. Funding for the workshop came from ICCO, The Commonwealth...
The high mountains of the world represent one of the most extreme environments on our planet. Yet they are of immense value to mankind as sources of food, fibre, minerals and water; and they are rich in a variety of living natural resources. Though mountainous regions stand above their surroundings, usually more densely populated plains, they are linked to them in numerous ways...
Over the past decade, the issue of climate change has risen rapidly to an important position on international scientific and political agendas. A number of key events in this process may be identified, beginning with the 1988 Conference on "The Changing Atmosphere" (World Meteorological Organization 1989), and the consequent establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC...
The world is three-quarters water and the Latin American and Caribbean region is considered to have comparatively greater availability of this resource: an estimated 30% of the world's fresh water. But human activities are besieging this wealth of water, threatening both its quality and quantity.
Ecuador is not unfamiliar with this reality. The internal water resources available...
The article introduces the importance of fresh and clean water for human survival and maintenance of ecosystem on land. It outlines the concept of integrated water resource management and its essential ingredients for sustainable development. The atmospheric, geospheric and biospheric interactions in Himalayas are briefly dealt with. Himalayan snow and ice reservoirs, its lake systems and...
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