Lahore: Advisor to Prime Minister (PM) on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam on Wednesday revealed that the PM aims to start a countrywide ‘protected area initiative’ – as part of the Green Stimulus project – in the near future, a news source reported.
Aslam highlighted that under the ‘Protected Area Initiative’, the ministry would set up six model national protected parks in different areas of the country at a cost of PKR 2,400 million.
As per the publication, the Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) would establish these parks in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK), Sindh, Gilgit Baltistan (GB), and in Punjab within Kheri Murat, Attock. He highlighted that the said ministry would fully fund these parks.
As part of the Billion Tree Tsunami Program, these parks would have proper management and preservation of the ecological habitats and wildlife with special focus on the eco-tourism and nature’s conservation, Aslam said.
Moreover, the PM’s advisor revealed that not one would have the permission to hunt, trap, shoot, kill, or even capture any wild animal within the 8,740-acre park to be set up in Attock — or the 3-mile radius of its boundaries.
