From Mountains to Mangroves

Protecting Pakistan's Natural Heritage

Rina Saeed Khan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2018
OUP Pakistan (Verlag)
978-0-19-940546-6 (ISBN)

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Pakistan is a geographical gem-a land with the greatest change in elevation within any sovereign state on earth, from 0 metres at Sonmiani Bay to 8,611 metres at the summit of K-2. Such dramatic changes in altitude have resulted in incredibly diverse ecosystems with wildlife ranging from snow leopards up in the high mountains to marine turtles on the coast. This book, written by the pioneering Pakistani environmental journalist, Rina Saeed Khan, is an attempt to highlight some of this amazing diversity. From Mountains to Mangroves informs the reader about the many inspiring stories of conservation activities taking place across Pakistan. The sixteen stories in the book are penned in an engaging, personal manner with rigorous research endorsed by WWF-Pakistan. An important record of the recent conservation history of Pakistan, these stories have been selected from the author's many travels over the past two decades to far-flung areas ranging from the Karakoram Mountains to the Makran Coast.

Rina Saeed Khan is an award-winning environmental journalist based in Pakistan. She writes on environment and climate change topics for Dawn and Reuters Alert-net in addition to her consultancies for WWF-Pakistan and UNDP-Pakistan. She is now training other journalists in climate change reporting in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Foundation. Rina has been the recipient of several international awards including the Earth Journalism Award in Copenhagen in 2009 for outstanding climate change reporting from Asia. She has also coauthored Water in the Wilderness: Life in the Coast, Deserts, and Mountains of Pakistan (OUP 2016).

List of Figures
Foreword by Dr Kauser Abdulla Malik
Preface

1. Valley of Blood: Pakistan-China Border
2. Shandur Pass: Endangered Wilderness
3. Kalash Tribe of Chitral: Struggle for Survival
4. Palas Valley: Wealth of Biodiversity
5. Ayubia Park: Home to Precious Natural Forests
6. Patriata: Last of Punjab's Ravaged Forests
7. Chilgozas: Black Gold of Suleiman Range
8. Juniper Forests: Living Fossils of Ziarat
9. Torghar: Markhor Heroes of Balochistan
10. Salt Range: Rejuvenation of Soan Valley
11. Indus: Saving the Blind Dolphins
12. Desert Lakes: Chotiari Wetlands
13. Toxic Waters: Manchar Lake
14. Keenjhar Lake: Keeping the Legend Alive
15. Indus Delta: Miracle at Keti Bunder
16. Daran: Treasure of a Turtle Beach

Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	36 colour plates
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 228 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-19-940546-8 / 0199405468
ISBN-13	978-0-19-940546-6 / 9780199405466
Zustand	Neuware