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Topic: Biodiversity Action Plan For Pakistan

This document outlines Pakistan's biodiversity action plan. It notes that Pakistan has a rich biodiversity due to its varied habitats, ranging from coastal mangroves to mountainous regions. However, uncontrolled population growth and processes like deforestation, overgrazing, and soil erosion are major threats. The action plan aims to protect biodiversity through local community participation, as outlined in Pakistan's National Conservation Strategy of 1992 and involvement in the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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Topic: Biodiversity Action Plan For Pakistan

This document outlines Pakistan's biodiversity action plan. It notes that Pakistan has a rich biodiversity due to its varied habitats, ranging from coastal mangroves to mountainous regions. However, uncontrolled population growth and processes like deforestation, overgrazing, and soil erosion are major threats. The action plan aims to protect biodiversity through local community participation, as outlined in Pakistan's National Conservation Strategy of 1992 and involvement in the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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Lecture 33

Topic: Biodiversity Action Plan for Pakistan

● Pakistan is blessed with variety of habitats and rich

biodiversity

● Pakistan has broad latitudinal spread and vast

altitudinal ranges

● These ranges extend from the coastal mangrove

vegetation of the Arabian Sea to the highest

mountain tops where the western Himalayas, Hindu

Kush and Karakoram ranges meet.

● This variety of habitats supports a rich biodiversity.

● More over, Pakistan has some of the rarest animals

and plants which are disappearing at alarming rate

forever due to overuse and loss of natural habitat.


● While uncontrolled population growth puts ever-

increasing pressures on the country’s natural resource

base.

● There is no sustainable use of biodiversity

● Due to which processes such as deforestation,

overgrazing, soil erosion, salinity and waterlogging

have become major threats to the existing

biodiversity in Pakistan.

● It has also been estimated that Pakistan has the

world’s second highest rate of deforestation.

● The continuing loss of this forest habitat and its

associated fauna and flora will have serious

consequences for the nation’s other natural and agro-

ecosystems.
● How to overcome this serious problem of the

biodiversity loss?

● The Government of Pakistan prepared a

comprehensive plan for the protection of biodiversity

through participation of local communities and

institutions popularly known as The National

Conservation Strategy (1992) and became member

of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in

1994.

Objectives and Aims

● The current Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) is a first

attempt to meet the planning requirements of the

Convention.
● It aims to implement the three consecutive

processes(the country study, national strategy, and

action plan) as a single strategy.

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