national conservation strategy
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Contents
• Introduction/History
• Objectives
• Overarching Principles
• NCS Donors
• NCS Implementation Committee
• Review of NCS
• Recommendations
• Priority Areas
National Conservation Strategy (NCS) early nineties
a multi stakeholders and comprehensive consultative
process
prepared by a team of experts over a three-
year period
approved by the Federal Cabinet of Pakistan on 1 March 1992
Objectives
Conservation of
Natural Resources Sustainable
Development
Improved Efficiency in the use and
Management of Resources
• 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
Chairman(Planning Commission)
Ministry of Housing and Works,
Environment & Urban Affairs Division
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Co-
operatives
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources
Secretary
Ministry of Water and Power
Ministry of Industries
NCS Implementation Committee
• NCS needs refocusing and closer link to achievabledevelopment outcomes; this should constitute the agendaof the next phase of NCS, (NCS-2)
• Prepare NCS- 2 to serve as Pakistan’s sustainabledevelopment strategy for 2002-2012, with a grateremphasis on poverty reduction and economicdevelopment in addition to environmental sustainability.
• Expand the range and scale of financial mechanisms formeeting NCS objectives
• Agriculture
• Policies: Prevent overuse, degradation, erosion and 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
• 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
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
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
Water management
Policies
• Protect and restore fishing habitats, with harvesting
restricted to the level of annual sustainable yields.
Measures
• Harvest fisheries on a sustainable yield basis
FISHERIES
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
Measure
• Encourage source reduction, through
recovery by industrial units of heavy
metals before discharge