Pakistan

Background

The Pakistan Wetlands Project (PWP) aims to promote the sustainable conservation of freshwater and marine wetlands and their associated globally important biodiversity in Pakistan. The Programme strategy is based on two sub-sets of objectives. The first will provide the required policy, institutional, technical and financial framework and generate positive public support essential for the mainstreaming of wetlands conservation. The second involves the design and implementation of progressive, participatory management plans for four independent Demonstration Complexes, each chosen to be representative of a broad eco-region in Pakistan. The project includes specific mechanisms to secure financial sustainability and enhanced replication and proliferation of viable wetlands management interventions in a nation-wide, on-going wetlands conservation initiative.

Objectives

To promote the sustainable conservation of freshwater and marine wetlands and their associated globally important biodiversity in Pakistan.

Key Achievements

30 wetlands assessed and survey programme completed.

Fourteen 1:50,000 Survey of Pakistan maps digitised.

Post-processing of wetlands data completed.

Pre-processing of land-cover mapping finalized.

1,508 candidates trained in 45 courses; including 57 PWP staff members in different national organizations and 15 GoP and Programme personnel at an international level ranging from Wildlife Management to Financial Management for Wetlands Conservation Organisations.

3 MCWC candidates attended a Coral Reef Management Course at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.

2 experimental wind turbines installed in off-grid wetlands dependant communities.