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History: WWF - Pakistan - Strategic Focus

WWF-Pakistan is the largest environmental conservation NGO in Pakistan, established in 1970. It has over 120 staff working out of a headquarters in Lahore and 6 regional offices across Pakistan. WWF-Pakistan's mission is to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable use of natural resources by protecting wildlife, habitats, and reducing pollution. The organization has a board of directors from different sectors who provide strategic guidance. Key projects include conserving forests, freshwater and marine ecosystems, and endangered species.

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History: WWF - Pakistan - Strategic Focus

WWF-Pakistan is the largest environmental conservation NGO in Pakistan, established in 1970. It has over 120 staff working out of a headquarters in Lahore and 6 regional offices across Pakistan. WWF-Pakistan's mission is to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable use of natural resources by protecting wildlife, habitats, and reducing pollution. The organization has a board of directors from different sectors who provide strategic guidance. Key projects include conserving forests, freshwater and marine ecosystems, and endangered species.

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History

Established in 1970, WWF - Pakistan is the largest conservation Non-Government Organization (NGO) in
the country. WWF – Pakistan has been committed to saving wildlife species and their habitats and the
promotion of nature conservation and environmental protection for sustainable development. This basic
principle is still our primary driving force and the preservation of biological diversity is the bottom line of
WWF – Pakistan’s activities. Its staff of over 120 people is based in the Lahore headquarters, a network
of 6 regional offices in Gilgit, Islamabad, Karachi, Muzaffarabad, Peshawar and Quetta and in 5 project
offices in Ayubia, Chitral, Jhangar, Sonmiani, and Zhob.

WWF - Pakistan is one of the fastest growing offices of the world-wide WWF network, which includes 31
National Organisations and Associates, 22 Programme Offices, and a co-ordinating International
Secretariat located in Gland, Switzerland. It is supported by over 5.3 million individual members all over
the world.

Our Mission

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in
which humans live in harmony with nature, by:

Conserving the world's biological diversity

ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable

promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

WWF - Pakistan - Strategic Focus

Goals
To conserve nature and its diversity, for present and future generations in Pakistan .

Purpose

• To maintain the key environmental factors for conservation of biodiversity, and negative human
impacts on nature reduced in Pakistan
• To conserve ecologically representative samples of forests, freshwater and marine ecosystems and
species of special concern

• To promote the best practices in reducing pollution and wasteful consumption through Target Driven
Programmes (TDPs)

• To increase the capacity for effective conservation work, within WWF and in other Governmental and
non-governmental partners

Governance and Management

WWF – Pakistan, as part of the global WWF network of organisations, places great emphasis on the
need for good governance. WWF recognises the fundamental difference between governance and
management; while management relates more to the efficiency of professionals working towards a
target or goal, governance is about intellectual innovation in creating a vision for a better world and
then converting it into achievable goals and targets for the organisation.

The Board is expected to be of exceptional integrity, bringing influence for the benefit of nature
conservation and being able to give time to the organisation. Those chosen to be Board members, as
indeed WWF staffmembers themselves, are people for whom the motivating factor is not money but
rather a commitment to the cause of nature conservation.

The Board has steered the development of the Five Year Strategic Plan (2001-2005) for the organisation
which will be reviewed in 2004 to start the process of preparation of the next five year plan.

WWF – Pakistan’s Board of Directors is a body of people from all walks of life, who give strategic
direction to the organisation. The one thing common among them is the fact that they are all
conservationists, working towards the conservation of nature in the country.

A Board Member’s term is of three years, and two consecutive terms can be served by a member.
Syed Babar Ali

President Emeritus

WWF - Pakistan

Brig. (Retd) Mukhtar Ahmed

Vice President Emeritus

WWF - Pakistan Mr. Iqbal Ahmed Qarshi

President WWF - Pakistan

Chief Executive Officer

Qarshi Industries (Pvt) Ltd.

Mr. Ali Hassan Habib

Director General

WWF-Pakistan

Dr. Bashir Ahmad Wani


Inspector General of Forests

Ministry of Environment, Local

Government And Rural Development

Government of Pakistan Mr. Ahsan M. Saleem

Chief Executive Officer

Crescent Steel & Allied Products Ltd.

Dr. Feriha N. Peracha Mr. Ahmer Bilal Soofi

Advocate Supreme Court

Ahmer Bilal Soofi & Co.

Mrs. Nasreen M. Kasuri

Chief Executive

Beaconhouse School System Mr. Qazi Azmat Isa

Community Development Specialist

The World Bank

Mr. Himayat Ullah Khan

Director General (Audit)

District Government (Punjab)


Mr. Muhammad Farrukh Irfan Khan

Chairman

Irfan Group of Companies

Prof. Dr. Khalid Hamid Sheikh

Chief Executive

Babar Ali Foundation


Projects of wwf Pakistan

Forests

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