World Wide Fund for nature in Pakistan (WWF-P) identifies major threats to Indus delta eco-region. These include shortage of fresh water supply, deteriorating water quality because of pollution, land clearance, over harvesting of resources, socio-economic conditions preventing or leading to access to natural resources, weak implementation of policy and legal framework and sea water intrusion.
Deputy Director General WWF-P, Dr Ejaz Ahmed while talking to APP here called for immediately initiating a multi-dimensional approach strategy for conservation and up-gradation of IDER where the role of public sector organisations should be marked.
The NGOs, CBOs and the local communities should be given due participation to achieve the targets within shortest possible time.
Senior environmental scientist of the Fund deliberating upon the proposed IDER planning process said taxonomic would include amphibians, birds, fishes, invertebrate, mammals, reptiles and vegetation.
The objectives were species, habitats, processes and livelihoods as IDER should be divided into sub-regions of Guddu, Sukkur, Kotri and coastal belt. While the main partners could be Sindh government and federal government departments of Forest and Wildlife, Irrigation and Drainage, Environment, Planning and Development, and WWF-P.
Dr Ejaz Ahmed presented Forever Indus Programme-Vision as mankind coexisting with nature in complete harmony, within a network of inter-linked wetlands where dolphins/otters thrive in their habitats and raptors/waterfowl inhabit lakes and lagoons. Aquatic flora and associated biodiversity flourish on the banks and the newly hatched marine turtles safely journey to sea.
Highlighting the importance of eco-region based approach, he said it included all major eco-systems within a region.
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