6,000 species of plants exist in Pakistan

[Neo]

6,000 species of plants exist in Pakistan

Cadaba Heterotricha


KARACHI: More than 6,000 species of plants exist in Pakistan, stated University of Karachi Senior Research Scientist, Prof. Dr Muhammad Ajmal Khan. He pointed out that some of these plant species are very rare and exist only in Pakistan.

Ajmal said that research is underway on some of these plants by Haider Abbas of University of Karachi’s A.Q. Khan Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Dr Muhammad Qaiser.

He informed that among these species the most prominent plant is Cadaba Heterotricha, which is close to extinction due to the unfavorable weather conditions and the careless approach of human beings towards the plant. A scientific approach for the preservation of this plant was stressed. Ajmal was of the view that this plant should be confined for horticulture purposes.

This plant only exists along the coastal regions of Pakistan and Somalia and was first discovered on the coast of Karachi in the year 1860 by British scientist Mr. Stock.

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[asaad-ul-islam]

isn't pakistan doing anything for it's environment? greenery projects like replanting trees, anything? I was sick because of the lack of the color "green" when i went to karachi. most of the people were pleased with new parks being built, but those parks had no trees whatsoever.

[Neo]

Unfortunately we're doing very little to safe flora and fauna in our country due budget restrictions. Most ongoing projects are led by WNF or Greenpeace with foreign (financial) assitance.

[Plasma]

Some thing is being done, well at least in Lahore.

LAHORE: District Nazim Mian Aamer Mehmood said that the District Agriculture Department (DAD) would provide 150 thousand saplings to the city during spring plantation campaign.

After inaugurating the spring plantation campaign by plating a sapling in the loan of Jinnah Hall Thursday, he told the media that the city district government would also plant about 20 thousand saplings on all the major roads with the provision of 50 thousand saplings to the educational institutions free of cost. He said the DAD would also provide 25 thousand saplings free of cost to each animal health care centre established in the villages and the centres of the army within the jurisdiction of the CDGL. Whereas, the citizens would also be provided 30 thousand saplings and the city government would sale each sapling on Rs 2 only. Town Nazims Ch Muhammad Ashraf, Tariq Sana Bajwa, and Shiekh Muhammad Younis and nazims of different union councils were also present there.