CHITRAL - Tree plantation campaign was kick started at Lawari Top area of Chitral on Sunday during which some 25,000 sapling would be planted at Ziarat and Lawari Top area. The drive has been initiated in assistance with Sarhad Rural Support Program (SRSP), a project of Program for Economic ...

OKARA - District Officer Coordination (DOC) Abdul Ghafoor Chaudhry stressed the need for an effective strategy to ensure nurturing trees being planted during the on-going campaign besides achieving the plantation target set for the season.Speaking to the media after inaugurating plantation drive at ...

 SARGODHA - On the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Special Assistant on Food and Environments Mansha Allah Butt, the Food Department started a tree plantation drive here the other day.       –ReporterFood Department Deputy Director Syed Arif Raza Bukhari inaugurated ...

LAKKI MARWAT - District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Hamid Mughal launched the tree plantation campaign by planting a sapling on the premises of judicial complex Tajazai on Tuesday. Among others Additional Sessions Judge Rajab Ali Khan, Senior Civil Judge Ghulam Abbas, Civil Judge Malik Hasnain, ...

If you ever get a chance to travel to Kohat and visit the Cantonment, you cannot, but marvel at the number of trees that stand in pre-independence compounds or form leafy canopies over well kept roads. Old and gnarled, these denizens of the forests are silent witnesses to events that legends are ...

LAHORE – Chief Minister Shahbaz on Monday inaugurated the tree plantation campaign of the Spring Season by planting tree of bottle palm at Chief Minister’s Secretariat. MPAs, Secretary Forest, Director General PHA and DCO Lahore were also present on this occasion. As many as 20 million ...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday inaugurated the Spring Tree Plantation campaign by planting sapling at Prime Minister’s House. Gilani planted a “Chir Pine” on the glossy green slopes of the PM House, an extension to the towering trees that adorn the slopes of the ...

Baffled shoppers in a Chinese city couldnt work out where the snoring noise was coming from until they looked up. And there - 20ft above them - was a homeless women curled up and fast asleep perched on a narrow tree branch. Passers-by, in Lanzhou, Gansu province, couldnt believe the woman was able ...

A CHRISTMAS tree made of 80,000 plastic spoons was lit up in Taiwan bringing an environmental message to the holiday season. The 12 metre tree, made by a team of six students from Transworld University, is destined to be recycled at the end of the festive season. The students won a competition set ...

ISLAMABAD (PR) - The employees of Ufone recently took part in an eco-friendly activity in Damial in which they conducted 'Plant a tree campaign jointly with the 150 students of The Citizens Foundation (TCF) Primary School, says a press release. This campaign was conducted at the General ...

LAHORE (PR) - With a concern for the environment, Avari Lahore Hotel actively contributes to conservation of nature; with one of its steps as launching of the tree plantation drive twice a year every year. The spring tree planting campaign 2010 was launched at Avari Lahore by planting a sapling of ...

LAHORE - The native Shisham tree has caught a deadly disease called dieback due to climate change and falling water table in entire region of South Asia and survival of Shisham tree, famous for quality furniture wood, is under threat. These views were expressed by foreign and local forest experts ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Though celebrated with much pump and show, the Environment Ministry is yet to compile the final data of tree plantation on National Tree Plantation Day. Charged with the slogans and renewing the commitment to make country greener, the planters coming from different strata of ...

KARACHI - The City District Government Karachi has planted more than 1 million Conocarpus trees, drawing harsh criticism from experts claiming its pollen causes allergies. Pollen count in Karachi is getting higher since the plantation of this tree, while allergy specialists in Karachi have ...

A new species of fish from tropical South America is confirming suspected roots to the loricariid catfish family tree. Lithogenes wahari shares traits with two different families of fish: the bony armor that protects its head and tail, and a grasping pelvic fin that allows it to climb vertical ...

IT looks good enough to eat - but this is one Christmas pudding you certainly wouldn't want to cover in flaming brandy. The 20ft-high creation was the idea of Roger and Valerie Holley. It is made of two 25-year-old conifers which Mr Holley, 60, merged together. He and his wife, 64, spent five ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Director General Marghzar Zoo, Raja Muhammad Javed here on Sunday said that "Not a single tree has been chopped down for the extension of Zoo". He said that Capital Development Authority (CDA) was already working to make it more attractive for the public entertainment and ...

NATURE, in the simple form of a tree canopy, appears to provide keen insights into the best way to design complex systems to move substances from one place to another, an essential ingredient in the development of novel "smart" materials. Duke University engineers believe that an image of two ...

ISLAMABAD - Chairman of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Brigadier (R) Saleem Ahmed Moen Wednesday formally inaugurated tree plantation campaign by planting a sapling at the premises of NADRA headquarter to support protection of natural environment nationwide. Talking to the ...