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Pakistan is a signatory to the international Ramsar
Wetlands Convention and has adopted the comprehensive
wetlands definition used by the parties to this Agreement:
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natural or artificial, permanent or temparary, with
water that is static, flowing, fresh, brackish or
salt, including areas of marine water, the depth
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Wetlands
in Pakistan
The Pakistan Wetlands Programme is an initiative of
the Federal Ministry of Environment. Despite the generally
arid nature of Pakistan's climate, the region supports
a diverse array of wetlands and in excess of 225 significant
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Breaking Records the
Conservation Way
Planting trees can be a lot of fun – especially if you do it to break a world record!
The Guinness Book of World Records had India holding the record for the most trees planted in a specific amount of time: 447,874 saplings. The Pakistan Wetlands Programme, or PWP, knew how badly mangrove trees are being depleted in the Indus Delta. Bring the two together, and you have the obvious answer... |
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