National and international agencies involved in wildlife conservation and management.

Group #11
Group Members:
Muhammad Ilyas
Mouaz Ashraf
Naseeb Ur Rehman
Noor Zada Khan

Presentation Topic:
National And International Agencies Involved
In Wildlife Conservation And Management.
PREPARED BY
Noor Zada M.Sc Zoology
2nd Semester
(KUST)

Presenter #01
Muhammad Ilyas
Reg.ZO220172032

National And International Agencies Involved In Wildlife
Conservation And Management are of two types:
1. NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

1. National Organizations
There are several National Agencies which are discussed
below with detail.

1. Society for Conservation and Protection
Of Environment (SCOPE)

 SCOPE is registered under "Societies Registration Act 1860" as a
non-governmental organization (NGO).
 SCOPE is enlisted by Income Tax Department as an NGO, under
Income Tax Ordinance 2001 and donations received by it are
tax exempted.
 SCOPE was Formed in 1988 to Protect Environment and Natural
Resources in Pakistan.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

 Most of their work is of networking, capacity building and advocacy
in nature which is spread over national, regional and global scale.
 However they believe in solid action and implement projects in the
field.
 For last 22 years, SCOPE has been focusing on four districts in Sindh,
Pakistan.
Where They Work:

 The main strategic thrust of SCOPE is to contribute its role in shaping
up of governmental policies within the framework of global
environmental/Sustainalbe Development(SD) agenda.
 SCOPE’s operational strategy is to involve experts, volunteers, media,
students, government agencies and other stakeholders in achieving its
goals.
 The mission and work of SCOPE is more relevant than ever,
considering the challenges faced by humanity due to climate change,
biodiversity loss and deterioration of natural resources.
Strategy

 Most rural communities do not have access to safe drinking water and waste
disposal systems.
 This absence of hygiene, sanitation and clean drinking water contributes to
diseases that range from gastro-intestinal infections to hepatitis and
tuberculoses.
 Increase in population, decrease in natural resources and poor education and
health services all combine to enhance the negative impact of the absence of
physical infrastructure that is necessary to arrest the overall degradation of the
environment.
1. Water and Sanitation
PROGRAMMES OF SCOPE

 SCOPE supports rural communities to build and improve physical
infrastructure for conservation of water and improvement in sanitation
through indigenous local knowledge that has been neglected or
forgotten by people.
 Since water and sanitation is a critical need for the people of these
areas, water conservation and improve sanitation is the main priority of
SCOPE programme.
 SCOPE is helping communities to manage water resources, improving
peoples' health and livelihoods through its water and sanitation
programme.

 Social mobilization is the key to successful and sustainable interventions in all
social sector development programs.
 The purpose of programme is to develop a comprehensive planning approach
that emphasizes on joint community action. The process brings together all
feasible and practical inter-sectoral social allies to strengthen community
participation for sustainability and self reliance.
 Social Mobilization is one of the main programme of SCOPE for supporting rural
men and women in their efforts to alleviate poverty.
2. Social Mobilization

 SCOPE’s mandate is to strive for poverty alleviation by harnessing people's potential
to help themselves, to assume control of local development and improve their
standard of living.
 The process of Social Mobilization encourages men and women to form a group,
typically consisting of 20-25 members, known as a Village Development
Organization (VDO).
 SCOPE has formed 1500 VDOs in three districts of Sindh namely Tharparkar,
Jamshoro and Thatta. It also trains and builds the capacity of the VDO members in
order to assist them social mobilization, VDO management and its initiatives.

2. Bioresource Reseach Center (BRC)

 BRC is a non-profit, non-political, multidisciplinary base.
 Its headquarter is located in Islamabad, Pakistan.
 Their main focus, till date, has been on the bear conservation in
Pakistan, through curbing bearbaiting.
 Our main focus, till date, has been on the bear conservation in
Pakistan, through curbing bearbaiting.
 Therefore, the major part of their present strategies and projects are
designed in this perspective and BRC has many successes at its claim
with regard to these projects.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

 Employed staff to monitor the prospective bearbaiting events, so that
appropriate actions can be taken well in time.
 Set up a facility to house the confiscated bears at the Kund Bear
Sanctuary, in the province of KPK, having a capacity to accommodate
30-40 bears.
 Established a set up to arrange visits to schools and mosques to create
awareness against bearbaiting among masses.
For this purpose BRC has:

 Bear baiting is a cruel hobby in the name of a sport which
involves setting of fierce dogs to attack tethered bear.
 Nowadays, throughout the world people are responsive at this
cruel sport mainly through the electronic media.
 Bear baiting is globally well thought-out to be an extremely cruel
attitude towards an animal and constraints are developing to stop
and eradicate this sport from Asia.
 Throughout Asia, Pakistan, India and China are considered to be
the epicenters of the illegal activities being practiced concerning
bears as poaching, smuggling of bear parts and involving them in
baiting.
Bear Baiting

 In Pakistan, the provinces of Sindh and Punjab are the places
where this blood sport is commonly practiced mainly during
winter season.
 These are usually organized at a festival or at the great dargahs
or the hawelis of these land lords.
 This game can be at a small scale comprising of one bear and
few dogs, and it can also be organized at a large scale
including ten bears, more than forty dogs and thousands of
spectators.
 In past, hundreds of bear baiting events were organized,
illegally in Pakistan. As there is a proper defined law but the
implementation is weak.
Status of Bear Baiting in Pakistan

 Poaching is the illegal killing/ trapping/ live capturing of animals,
usually to eat or sell. It is a major problem in Pakistan.
 More and more wild animal species are disappearing, year after year,
and poaching and hunting are the main contributing factors in such
extinctions.
Poaching of Bear

1. Reduce the demand for poached products.
2. Reduce poaching activity by:
 Alleviating poverty and generation of alternative
employment.
 Monitoring and controlling of poachers, using anti-
poaching units.
 Regional/Sub-regional co-operation to monitor, assess
and manage wildlife resources.
 Stronger enforcement of anti-poaching laws and
restrictions.
 Awarding severe penalties for poaching.
Solutions to Poaching or anti-poaching measures

Presenter #02
Mouaz Ashraf
Reg.ZO220172033

3. Zoological Survey Department (ZSD)

 The Zoological Survey Department of Pakistan )is a department
under the Ministry of Climate Change, Government of
Pakistan which carries out survey and research on distribution,
population, and status of animal life in Pakistan.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Natural History Museum
 Location:
Fish Harbour, West Wharf,
Adjacent Marine Fisheries Department,
Karachi.
MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
Location:
Block 67, Pakistan Secretariat, Shahrah-e-Iraq, Saddar, Karachi
Zoological Survey Department has a MUSEUM and LABORATORY

4. Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)

 Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) coordinates help for
animals in need by putting people in touch with each other
through social media.
 They find homes for rescued animals that are up for adoption.
 They advocate humane stray dog management, legislation for
animal welfare laws and work towards increasing compassion
towards all sentient beings.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

 They are registered in Pakistan since 2008 as a non-profit
company under section 42 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984.
 Their accounts are audited annually by chartered accountants
Salman & Co. and our registered office address is 5-3-1, Sector
15, Korangi Industrial Area, Karachi, Pakistan.

In Karachi
 ACF Animal Rescue (Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation)
Location:- Deh Mehran, near checkpost #3, Malir Cantt, Karachi.
 Karachi Animal Welfare Society
Location:- Plot 29A, Mharan Town, Korangi
 Innocent Pets Shelter
Location:- Saharanpur cooperative society, near Malir Cantt checkpost
6, Karachi
PAWS Animal rescue services in Pakistan:

In Lahore
 Todd’s Welfare Society
Currently not rescuing animals. Shelter is under construction.
In Islamabad
 HWO Animal Rescue
 Animal Care Association of Pakistan

5. PAKISTAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

 Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH) Islamabad was established in
1976, under the patronage of Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), Ministry of
Science and Technology, Pakistan.
 PMNH has four divisions namely Botanical Sciences, Earth Sciences,
Zoological Sciences and Public Services.
 PMNH also provides consultancy and advisory services to public and private
sector organizations.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Botanical Sciences Division (BSD)
Earth Sciences Divsion (ESD)
Zoological Sciences Division (ZSD)
Public Services Division (PSD)
PMNH DIVISIONS

The PMNH has established following Display Galleries for the visitors in order to
provide them information about natural history of Pakistan.
 Virtual Orientation Gallery
 Bio Gallery
 Tethys Gallery
 Gemstones Gallery
 Eco Gallery
 Palaeo Gallery
PMNH DISPLAY GALLERIES

 Collection, identification and preservation of natural history specimens
to develop repositories of plants, animals, rocks, minerals and fossils
found in Pakistan.
 Conduct research on biological and geological resources in the light of
their economic importance and conservation.
 To create awareness on sustainable use/conservation of natural
resources and protection of environment.
 PMNH scientists contribute towards discovery of new species of
animals, fossils and plants.
PMNH OBJECTIVES

There are several types of INTERNATIONAL
organization such as:
 International Snow Leopard Trust
 Snow Leopard Network
 Snow Leopard Conservancy
 WWF
 Etc
2. International Organizations

1. International Snow Leopard Trust (ISLT)

The Snow Leopard Trust aims to better understand
the endangered snow leopard, and to protect the
cat in partnership with the communities that share
its habitat.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

 The Snow Leopard Trust aims to protect this endangered
cat through community-based conservation projects that are
based on an improved scientific understanding of snow leopard
behavior, needs, habitats and threats.
MISSION AND CONSERVATION PHILOSOPHY

 Known throughout the world for its beautiful fur and elusive behavior, the
endangered snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is found in the rugged mountains
of Central Asia.
 Snow leopards are perfectly adapted to the cold, barren landscape of their
high-altitude home, but human threats have created an uncertain future for
the cats.
 Despite a range of over 2 million km2, scientist estimate that there may only
be between 3,920 and 6,390 snow leopards left in the wild.
Snow Leopard Facts

 As the trade with snow leopard parts happens in the dark, data is
hard to come by.
 Between 2008 and 2016 alone, one snow leopard has
reportedly been killed and traded every day - 220 to 450 cats
per year.
 The true extent of the problem is thought to be even bigger.
POACHING

 The Snow Leopard Trust works in 5 of the 12 countries where snow leopards are
found - China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Pakistan.
 Collectively, these 5 countries contain over 75% of the world’s population of wild
snow leopards.
 In each of these five countries, we’re working through a local partner organization,
led by local staff members.
 They conduct snow leopard research, lead community conservation programs, and
negotiate policy decisions with local authorities.
Where They Work

 The Snow Leopard Trust encourages and empowers
people who live in the cat's habitat to help protect their
local wildlife and ecosystems.
Conservation Programs

Presenter #03
Naseeb Ur RehmanReg. ZO220172034
N R KTK

 The Snow Leopard Network is a worldwide organization dedicated to
facilitating the exchange of information between individuals around the world
for the purpose of snow leopard conservation.
 Our membership includes leading snow leopard experts in the public, private,
and non-profit sectors.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

 The main goal of this organization is to implement the Snow
Leopard Survival Strategy (SLSS), which offers a
comprehensive analysis of the issues facing snow leopard
conservation today.
MISSION

 The Snow Leopard Network supports and administers the Snow Leopard
Conservation Grants program.
 This grants program is designed to support conservation, research and
conservation education efforts on snow leopards that addresses the priority
needs identified in the Snow Leopard Survival Strategy (SLSS).
 Proposals focusing on grassroots conservation or applied research are viewed
preferentially.
Snow Leopard Conservation Grant Program:

 As a project receiving funding, the Snow Leopard Conservancy
has been given support for sustaining snow leopard conservation
through strengthened local institutions and enterprises.
 The Conservancy facilitated deployment of 57 new trail cameras
in Mongolia, Nepal, and Pakistan, greatly adding to our local
partners’ ability to monitor snow leopard populations in their
critical habitat areas.
 Dr. Rodney Jackson, Director of the Snow Leopard Conservancy,
is widely considered the leading world expert on the snow
leopard, having devoted over 30 years to researching and
conserving this elusive cat in South and Central Asia.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

 Advancing community-based stewardship of the snow leopard through education,
research and grassroots conservation action.
 Thier goal is to transform snow leopards from being perceived as pests by
herders into assets valued more alive than dead.
 The Conservancy currently works in seven of the twelve range countries: Bhutan,
India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, and Russia.
MISSION

 People have moved their livestock into snow leopard habitat, crowding out
the cats’ native prey. Then, when cats prey on livestock, herders kill them in
retaliation.
WHY THEY ESTABLISHED THE SNOW LEOPARD CONSERVANCY?

 Snow Leopard Conservancy developed innovative, community-based livestock
corral predator-proofing programs.
 Habitat loss and fragmentation also threaten the snow leopard.
 Snow Leopard Conservancy and its partners have led the way in radio-tracking,
trail camera monitoring, and community-based eco-tourism and livestock
insurance programs.
 Snow Leopards are poached for their bones, skin, and organs which are used
in traditional Asian medicine.

 They work with local partners and herder communities, the front line in
preserving the biodiversity of Central Asia’s high mountains.
 They provide needed technical and financial assistance for community-
based activities linked to stewardship and biodiversity conservation.
 Appreciative Participatory Planning and Action empowers communities to
focus on their assets, successes and positive attributes instead of their
problems and negatives.
THIER APPROACH

Women learning to use a trail camera in Bhutan

Did you know there are only 4,500-7,500 wild
snow leopards left?
 Snow leopards suffer from low natural density, large home ranges,
dependence upon prey whose numbers are low or declining, and
high vulnerability to poaching and other threats from humans.
THREATS TO SNOW LEOPARD SURVIVAL:

 Herders are especially angered by events of surplus killing when a snow
leopard enters a corral and kills up to 50 or more sheep and goats in a
single instance.
 Herders naturally want to retaliate by killing the offending cat.
 Those snow leopards living outside protected areas are all the more
vulnerable.

 Poaching and illegal trading in the snow leopard’s exquisite fur and highly
valued body parts (used in traditional Asian medicine) is a significant and
increasing threat
Illegal poacher’s snare

 The Snow Leopard Conservancy’s community partnership in Pakistan
began in 2003, with conservation and education activities in the Northern
Areas region of Baltistan.
 In 2004, in the village of Hushe, a snow leopard entered a livestock pen and
killed many sheep and goats.
 In the past, they would have killed this stock-raiding cat, but the
community instead released it.
CONSERVATION IN PAKISTAN

 Activities in Pakistan are centered on six villages adjacent to good quality
snow leopard habitat where BWCDO has established Snow Leopard
Conservation Committees responsible for managing and monitoring the
community projects.
 In 2011, then master’s student Bilal Anwar conducted the first food habits
study in which scats were genetically confirmed by our associate,
Dr. Jan Janecka, to belong to snow leopards.

 Snow Leopard Conservancy supports teacher training and conservation
education in nine schools throughout three valleys of Baltistan.
 About 345 students in 3rd, 4th and 8th grades participate.
 In 2013, students from seven regional colleges participated in the Baltistan
Inter-College speech competition, Wildlife and Environment, with the theme
of “Save the Snow Leopard.”
Students participating in Inter-College speech competition (photo: BWCDO)

Young students with snow leopard educational materials (photo: BWCDO)

Presenter #04
Noor Zada Khan
Reg. ZO220172035

 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is
a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and
civil society organisations.
 It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with
the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic
development and nature conservation to take place together.
 Created in 1948, IUCN has evolved into the world’s largest and most
diverse environmental network.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Their experts are organised into six commissions dedicated to;
 Species survival,
 Environmental law,
 Protected areas,
 Social and economic policy,
 Ecosystem management, and
 Education and communication.

 The IUCN Programme provides the framework for planning,
implementing, monitoring and evaluating the conservation work
undertaken by the Commissions and the Secretariat with and on behalf
of IUCN Members.
 The IUCN Programme 2017-2020 was approved by Member
organizations at IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in September 2016
in Hawaii, USA.
PROGRAMME

 Their work is guided by the IUCN Programme 2017- 2020 which has
three priority areas:
WORKING FOR PEOPLE AND NATURE

 Valuing and conserving nature enhances IUCN’s heartland work on
biodiversity conservation, emphasising both tangible and intangible
values of nature.
 Promoting and supporting effective and equitable governance of
natural resources consolidates IUCN’s work on people-nature relations,
rights and responsibilities, and the political economy of nature.
 Deploying nature-based solutions to societal challenges expands
IUCN’s work on nature’s contribution to control problems of sustainable
development, particularly in climate change, food security and social and
economic development.

 IUCN's headquarters are located in Gland, Switzerland, in one of Europe's
greenest office buildings: “The IUCN Conservation Centre.”
IUCN CONSERVATION CENTRE

 Pakistan contains a diverse topography of geographical
features so it contain incredibly diverse flora and fauna.
 A growing population and needs of human result in
decimation of animal loss of habitats and deforestation in
Pakistan.
 For the conservation of these environmental issues, WWF-
Pakistan was formed in 1970.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION

 WWF-Pakistan works in pakistan around 20 offices.
250 dedicated staff members.
 Its head office in Lahore ,
regional offices in Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Gilgit,
Muzaffarabad and Quetta.
 WWF International Network, is one world's largest and most
experienced independent conservation organizations.
4 million supporters,
6,200 staff members
 Global network active in more than 100 countries.

WWF-Pakistan aims to conserve nature and ecological
processes by:
 Preserving genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity.
 Ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is
sustainable, both now and in the longer term.
 Promoting action to reduce pollution and the wasteful
exploitation and consumption of resources and energy.
WWF MISSION

1. FOOD
2. FRESHWATER
3. OCEANS
4. FORESTS
WWF organize their work around the following areas.

 About 62 percent of the country’s population resides in the rural
areas, and is directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture.
 WWF–Pakistan generate a Sustainable Agriculture Programmes
(SAP) in 1999.
 It work with the help of businesses, government, farmers, research
institutes and other organizations to increase the product of cotton and
sugarcane in Pakistan by using less water, chemical fertilizers and
pesticides.
1. FOOD

 Ensure that crop production is sustainable and has minimal negative
environmental impacts to cope with climate change.
 Promote collaborative research, partnerships, and strengthening of
national agricultural research and extension systems.
 Encourage the private sector to purchase sustainable trade like Better
Cotton to create an enabling environment and ultimately improve
livelihood of farming communities.
GOALS AND STRATEGIES

 The vision of their freshwater programme is to conserve and sustainably
manage freshwater habitats in Pakistan to benefit nature and human.
2. FRESH WATER

 WWF freshwater programme strives to maintain ecological
health, hydrological processes in the Indus River Basin.
 Protecting representative freshwater habitats, and where
possible, to establish freshwater conservation network in
the Indus Basin, to secure freshwater dependant flora and
fauna.
FRESH WATER PROGRAMME MISSSION

 Indus Basin is one of the largest in Asia, and spans across four countries:
China, Afghanistan ,Pakistan and India,.
 Supporting the population of 180 million and rich biodiversity.
 The River Indus is the longest river of Pakistan spanning the length of 2,700km,
 Providing a source of water for a wide range of uses including drinking,
irrigation and industries.
 INDUS RIVER is riverine habitat for endangered species fauna including fish,
amphibians, birds, small and large mammals such as the Indus blind
dolphin, hog deer, wild boar, Indian cobra and many more.
Indus Pakistan’s Lifeline

 Pakistan has a 1,050 km long coastline, shared by two provinces,
Sindh and Balochistan, with water body.
 Globally with as many as 100 million species, marine biodiversity
far exceeds that on land.
 In Pakistan, it faces various threats from habitat destruction to
illegal catch of juveniles of commercially important fish species, in
particular for migratory species (such as tuna species).
3. Oceans

 Broadening knowledge base on habitats and critical resources.
 Transforming markets and fisheries improvement projects.
 Identification of the Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas.
 Community mobilization and market access.
 Marine turtle conservation programme.
 Reducing by catch in the high seas .
 Global strategy for conservation of sharks and rays.
 Establishing regional cooperation for resource management,
scientific data collection.
WWF – Pakistan’s work in coastal areas has focused broadly
in the following areas:

 Pakistans diverse ecosystems hold exceptional biodiversity.
 These ecosystems home animals and plants that are unique to our
ecoregions.
 When such places are threatened by humans, the life they support
disrupts too.
 This is why conservation of priority places is at the core of what
WWF Does.
4. FOREST

WWF Pakistan also worked on
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