Country’s first forest monitoring system to stem forest loss launched
By Raja kamran
Malik Amin says system to help detect illegal logging, forest land use changes.
Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Climate Change, Malik Amin Aslam has said that monitoring of forests resources is pivotal for containing deforestation and forest land degradation and taming global warming-caused climate change.
There has been large-scale deforestation and land degradation in the country over last several years for want of effective forest monitoring system, which helps detect logging operations in forest areas and natural habitats of outstanding significance or critical importance, in a matter of minutes, he remarked while addressing a high-level event “launch of the National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS)” held here on Monday.
“However, the fo...