{"id":5880,"date":"2020-03-03T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=5880"},"modified":"2020-03-03T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:24:12","slug":"pakistan-home-to-unique-species-world-wildlife-day-fast-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-home-to-unique-species-world-wildlife-day-fast-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Home to Unique Species – World Wildlife Day @ Fast University"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Islamabad; 03 March 2020-Adviser to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam<\/strong> Tuesday said the ministry of climate change (MoCC) would extend National Nature Internships for youth of the country to participate in foreign funded projects aimed at environment conservation, wildlife protection and habitat restoration in the country.<\/p>\n

Dean of Diplomatic Corp, Ambassador of Turkmenistan Mr Atadjan Movlamov, Ambassadors of Kyrgyz Republic, Azerbaijan,Kazakh Republic, Libya, Morocco, Nepal,Tajikistan and other countries were also present at the occasion.<\/p>\n

Addressing a celebration in connection with the World Wildlife Day organized by MoCC<\/strong>, and FAST National University<\/strong> as chief guest, he said Pakistan Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection programme (PSLEP) was among the three foreign funded projects that aimed at biodiversity and environment restoration in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Amin said Pakistan was home to world\u2019s unique species of Snow Leopard that were facing serious existential threats due to multiple factors. However, PSLEP was not only focusing on preserving the wildlife rather its habitat as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nature internship programme will help the youth to join and learn from the foreign funded projects like PSLEP, Zero Emissions Metro Bus in Karachi and Climate Smart Agriculture. These projects are of high significance that will help increase their abilities and generate innovative ideas,\u201d the Adviser noted.<\/p>\n

The Ministry, he said, was also going to launch Green Youth Movement (GYM) that would be inaugurated by the Prime Minister. \u201cGYM is going to establish specialized environmental clubs that will be used to garner green (nature based) and innovative ideas from youth to conserve depleting environment through technology and nature.<\/p>\n

The Ministry will commercialize those ideas into projects through the government funding. \u201cAn expert from Silicon Valley in Karachi has told me that the ideas taken by Pakistani youth had 80 percent success rate whereas those from the other parts of the world only managed to get 25 percent success rate. The GYM project will help in biodiversity and ecological conservation and the youth should participate in this programme,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the occasion as the guest of honour Kyrgyz Ambassador Eric Beishemhiev<\/strong> said, \u201cWe have celebrated the World Wildlife Day 2020 as a tea, for sustaining all life on earth which is the theme for this years wildlife day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ADVISOR TO PM ON CLIMATE CHANGE, MALIK AMIN ASLAM IN A GROUP PHOTO ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD WILDLIFE DAY AT FAST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD ON MARCH 03, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He said that high mountainous regions of Kyrgyzstan<\/strong> and Pakistan were becoming highly vulnerable due to glacial melting and increasing global warming. However, millions of people living rely on the glaciers in these high altitudes whereas the wildlife and flora in these habitats were also a source of livelihood to many people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to save the snow leopards and this majestic ecosystem the SLF and PSLEP are working out tirelessly to save it from extinction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Kyrgyzstan government was taking climate change a serious threat to the country and had enacted a serious legislation to implement Paris Agreement\u2019s nationally determined commitments in its true perspective, the Kyrgyz ambassador informed the participants.<\/p>\n

He noted that Kyrgyzstan was the first country to hold international congress on snow leopard conservation in 2013 that became a starting point for the world to seriously work on snow leopard protection. \u201cThis has also helped in adopting Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP) programme in the countries having snow leopard habitats and species,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The adviser and Kyrgyzstan Ambassador distributed mementos and certificates among the diplomats participating in the event and students \u00a0.<\/p>\n

Moreover, documentaries highlighting the efforts made under PSLEP to protect snow leopard and its habitat were showed to the participants whereas a special documentary on the wildlife and tourism potential was also played during the ceremony.<\/p>\n

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ADVISOR TO PM ON CLIMATE CHANGE, MALIK AMIN ASLAM ADDRESSING ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD WILDLIFE DAY AT FAST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD ON MARCH 03, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islamabad; 03 March 2020-Adviser to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam Tuesday said the ministry of climate change (MoCC) would extend National Nature Internships for youth of the country to participate in foreign funded projects aimed at environment conservation, wildlife protection and habitat restoration in the country. Dean of Diplomatic Corp, Ambassador […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,91],"tags":[224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}