Daily Lead Pakistan • 18th April 2023

KP to lose over 100,000 tons wheat to untimely rains, hailstorm

Climate Change

36088 acres standing wheat crop in the province fully damaged due to erratic weather, says CRS

Javed Khan

PESHAWAR

The recent spell of rains and hailstorm has damaged standing wheat crop grown over more than 36000 acres, which makes up 7.4 percent of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s entire wheat production.

According to the provincial agriculture department’s Crops Reporting Services (CRS), about 36088 acres of wheat crop out of a total 1.9 million acres has been impacted by the

Daily Lead Pakistan • 15th June 2022

Centre cuts climate change’s allocations by 34pc in budget 2022-23

JAVED KHAN

PESHAWAR

The coalition government in the centre had slashed its annual allocations for climate change by 34 per cent in the budget 2022-23.

According to budget documents, climate change’s allocation in the outgoing financial year totaled Rs 14.6 but they had been significantly reduced to Rs 9.6 billion in the next.

Despite the high vulnerability of almost all sectors to environmental degradation, the climate change division would now receive fewer funds for its Public Sector D

Daily Lead Pakistan • 4th November 2021

KP cabinet approves first-ever food security policy

KP govt would spend Rs 236b over next decade to meet challenges of food security, Kamran Bangash

JAVED KHAN

PESHAWAR

The provincial cabinet on Wednesday approved the first-ever Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Food Security policy, as the government prepared to tackle the challenges of food availability, accessibility, utilization and stability in the province.

Sharing details of the decisions at a post-meeting news conference, Minister for Information Kamran Bangash said that a provincial food Securi

Daily Lead Pakistan • 3rd September 2020

80 percent Trout fish farms washed away by flood in district Swat

Hundreds of ponds marketable fish, imported hatchery breeding flashed in speedy water

Javed Khan

Peshawar

A booming industry of Trout fish farming flushed by heavy flood along with destroying natural fish fauna of all types in district Swat.

Speaking to Lead Pakistan the president of the Trout fish farms association district Swat Rasheed Khan said that out of registered 200 trout fish farms more than 160 damaged completely.

He said that the forms washed away by floods contained hundred

Daily Lead Pakistan • 26th September 2020

Climate strikes, protest demands climate action in KP

Fridays for Future

Javed Khan

PESHAWAR

Climate change activist Fatima Faraz has said that climatic changes are fundamental threats to sustainable development as its impacts cut across boundaries and across dimensions – including political, economic, and social.

Addressing climate change seminar “Friday for Future” at Peshawar Press Club, on Friday she said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is one of the most vulnerable provinces of Pakistan to the negative impacts of Climate Change, adding that lo

Daily Lead Pakistan • 14th October 2020

Ten animal’s deaths reported in 2020

Leopard killed in Peshawar’s zoo

our correspondent

peshawar

Due to suboptimal management and weak healthcare system another death of Cheetah (leopard) occurred at Peshawar’s zoo here on Tuesday. According to the zoo authority the death of Cheetahs was the result of an unnoticed fight between the two Cheetahs which left one of them critically injured and died even receiving the treatment.

Following the incident the Minister for Forest, Wildlife and Environment Ishtiaq Khan Urmer convened

Daily Lead Pakistan • 6th October 2020

CJP irked by EPA’s poor performance

KP’s failed to control environmental pollution, CJP Gulzar

Javed Khan

PESHAWAR

Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmad on Monday assailed the poor performance of environmental protection agency (EPA) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) for not taking pragmatic measures to abate the level of pollution in the province.

He remarked that the pollution situation of this magnitude in the province demands concrete and uniformity but the EPA is going in a different direction and has failed to control the eme

21st November 2023

From Black Partridge to Himalayan Ibex: Wildlife Authorities Say the Species Are Disappearing | Connect4Climate

Wildlife, an integral part of environment facing increasing threats in several ways in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Muhammad Niaz, deputy Forest Conservator, shared that recent upswing in the climatic changes has largely put the biodiversity of the region under severe threat of endangering.

He said that poaching and hunting for the food and adventure and variations in the seasons forcing species towards life-threatening challenges. The major portion of the glaciers located in the n

Daily Lead Pakistan • 4th July 2021

35pc households faced with food insecurity in merged areas of KP: Report

One-third of households very seldom consume staple food, vegetables, or protein-rich diet

JAVED KHAN

PESHAWAR

Around 35 percent households in the newly merged areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are faced with food insecurity, said a survey conducted by the World Food Program.

The Comprehensive Food Security & Livelihood Assessment (CFSLA) report 2019-20 by World Food Program (WFP) revealed that around 31% households are food insecure, four percent are severely food insecure, 60 percent are marg

22nd November 2023

A billion trees but no pollition inventory

A billion trees but no pollution inventory