Saving Marine Life
THERE are several concerns that confront our country, but environmental and ecological problems are perhaps the most ignored and least silent. We somehow flop to recognize the essential value of nature and the essential to live in harmony by the very sources that bear life. But humiliation and weak shields of fragile ecosystems in a country alike Pakistan — where billions rely on the environment for existence — will not only effect livelihoods and impair poverty but threaten, alterate and abolish the very processes and assets they depend upon. Pakistan is participant to the Convention on Biological Variety, under which all parties are to launch sheltered areas that are well managed and naturally representative of national and regional structures to shrink the recent rate of biodiversity loss, decrease poverty and pursue supportable development. Under the 2010 Aichi Biodiversity Objectives, each country is normal to declare at least 17pc of its terrestrial zones and 10pc of its coastal and marine regions as a Marine Secure Area (MPA) by 2020. An MPA is an area of sea committed to the safeguard and preservation of biodiversity, natural resources and related cultural resources, and achieved through legal or other actual means. MPAs play a vital role in protecting habitats and demonstrative samples of marine life, and can help in restoring oceans’ productivity and shunning further humiliation. The need to action is imperative and crucial
MPAs “deliver a range of welfares for fisheries, local economies and the marine atmosphere,
counting conservation of biodiversity and ecologies; arresting and perhaps reversing global and
local letdown in fish populations by protecting risky breeding, nursery and feeding habitats;
raising the profile of an area for sea tourism and enlargement local economic options; providing
opportunities for education, training, heritage and culture; and providing broad benefits as
reference locations in the long-term” for exploration and scientific studies.
The Charna and Kaio landmass complex is one of five sites planned to be labelled MPA status.
The need for act is urgent. In 2005, Margalla Hills’ environmental honesty was safeguarded as a
effect of suo moto action taken by the Supreme Court later civil society and the media
highlighted the matter. One optimism that, this stage, the government will action rapidly and
on its own.