ASSIGNMENT TOPIC: “National Conservation Strategy”

Submitted to: Dr. Amina Tariq

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Table of Contents
National conservation strategy (NCS) ........................................................................................................... 3
Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 3
NCS donors................................................................................................................................................ 3
Objectives ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Principles ................................................................................................................................................... 4
NCS recommend 14 core priority areas for implementation ................................................................... 5
Recommendations .................................................................................................................................... 5
Priority areas ............................................................................................................................................. 5
References .................................................................................................................................................. 10

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 National conservation strategy (NCS)
Introduction
• The Pakistan National Conservation Strategy (NCS), approved the government on March
1, 1992, provides a broad framework for addressing environmental concerns in the
country.
• NCS was prepared by comprehensive consultative process with the technical and
financial assistance of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
• It joined a handful of countries that have pledged to balance their economic development
with the conservation and use of their natural resources.
• NCS was prepared by a team of experts over a three-year period through a partnership
between the Government of Pakistan and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
• It involved more than 3,000 people through workshops and direct and indirect
consultations.
• NCS was approved by the Federal Cabinet of Pakistan on 1 March 1992.

NCS donors
• World Bank.
• CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency).
• EU (European Union).

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Objectives
The main objectives of NCS are:
• Conservation of natural resources.
• Sustainable Development.
• Improved Efficiency in the use and Management of Resources.

Principles
The principles of NCS are:
• Achieving greater Public Partnership in Development and Environmental Management.
• Merging Environment and Economics in decision-making.
• Focusing on Durable Improvements in the quality of life in Pakistan.

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NCS recommend 14 core priority areas for implementation
➢ Maintaining soils in croplands.
➢ Increasing irrigation efficiency.
➢ Protecting watersheds.
➢ Supporting forestry and plantations.
➢ Restoring rangelands and improving livestock.
➢ Protecting water bodies and sustaining fisheries.
➢ Conserving biodiversity.
➢ Increasing energy efficiency.
➢ Developing and deploying renewables.
➢ Preventing/ abating pollution.
➢ Managing urban wastes.
➢ Supporting institutions for common resources.
➢ Integrating population and environment programmers.
➢ Preserving cultural heritage.

Recommendations
• NCS needs refocusing and closer link to achievable development outcomes; this should
constitute the agenda of the next phase of NCS, (NCS-2).
• Prepare NCS- 2 to serve as Pakistan’s sustainable development strategy for 2002-2012,
with a greater emphasis on poverty reduction and economic development in addition to
environmental sustainability.
• Expand the range and scale of financial mechanisms for meeting NCS objectives.

Priority areas
Agriculture
Policies:
• Prevent overuse.
• Degradation.
• Erosion.
• improve fertility of soil.

Measure:
• Develop soil and water conservation plans, protect high-risk erosion areas, use and adopt
water conservation solutions & compatible cropping systems.

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Forestry management
Policies:
• Use Forest resources sustainable and preserve and manage on a representative basis some
old forests to maintain the bank of biodiversity.

Measure:
• Strengthen the forest departments and promote the private sector to take the lead role in
irrigated plantations and farm forestry.
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Rangeland rehabilitation
Polices:
• System should repair rangelands and to ensure sustainable income to range land
inhabitants on interval basis.

Measures:
• Issue rangeland management licenses and Improve services of department & multi
sectors but programmers should be cost effective.
• Provide technical & relevant advices.

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Water management
Policies:
• priorities to increase irrigation effectiveness.
• Promote biological approach & engineering solutions to solve problems of salinity
sodality & water logging.

Measures:
• For salinity & water logging solutions research should be done with addition of
biological solutions.

Fisheries
Policies:
• Protect and restore fishing habitats, with harvesting restricted to the level of annual
sustainable yields.

Measures:
• Harvest fisheries on a sustainable yield basis.

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Wildlife and habitat
Policies:

• Increase the numbers of national parks and game reserves.

Measures:
• Introduce incentives to safeguard conservation areas and divert pressures from threatened
wildlife habitats and species.

Energy
Policies:
• Expand the use of coal to meet short-term, electricity demand requirements, based on the
least polluting technology and current emission standards.

Measures:
• Assign clear roles for the public and private sectors in supplying energy.

Pollution control
Policies:
• Adopt domestic wastewater treatment technologies that provide for recovery and reuse of
water, nutrients, and organic matter.

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Measure:
• Encourage source reduction, through recovery by industrial units of heavy metals before
discharge.

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References
• Akhtar, A. Hai. March 2000. Resourcing for National Conservation Strategy (NCS)
Implementation. Applied Economics Research Centre, University of Karachi. Report
prepared for NCS MTR.
• Carew-Reid, J. (ed). 1997. Strategies for Sustainability: Asia. Earthscan, London.
• Government of Pakistan. January 1993. The Pakistan National Conservation Strategy.
Plan of Action, 1993-1998. 81 p.

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