Mr. Rizwan ullah Khan Country Manager Coca-Cola Pakistan and Afghanistan attended the Project Steering Committee meeting of the WWF-P’s and Coca-Cola Foundation joint project held on 3 November, 2009 in Green Retreat Hotel, Nathiagali. The meeting was also attended by Mr. Saeed-u-Zaman, Chief Conservator NWFP, Wildlife Department; Mr.Sakhi Jan Marwat,    Director Galiat Development Authority; Mr. Naseem Hijazi, DFO Glaliies Forest Division; Mr, Iftikhar, Manager/DFO Ayubia National Park; Mr. Aftab-ur-Rehman Rana, Manager I-LED CNFA Pakistan; Mr. Bashir, Community Representative; Mr. Ali Hassan Habib, Director General WWF-P; Dr. Ejaz Ahamad, Deputy Director General WWF-P; Mr. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Manager Conservation NWFP WWF-P; Ms. Uzma Khan, Manager Conservation Program and staff members of the project. 

World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) launched a “Sub-Watershed Management and Environmental Awareness Project in and around Ayubia National Park (ANP), NWFP” with the financial collaboration of Coca-Cola Foundation. The project aims to improve and sustain the perennial flow of clean water in springs and streams of the area through an integrated watershed management approach. Moreover, it supports the key stakeholders in the waste management and cleaning of the Saif-ul-Malook National Park.

While reviewing the progress of the project achieved during the past nine months, the participants showed their utmost satisfaction over the pace and quality of work. Mr. Rizwan-Ullah Khan in his remarks praised the project team on their performance and urged the need for project formulation for the second phase with broader scope and more geographic coverage.

At the end of the meeting, Mr. Rizwan Ullah Khan presented 30 Binoculars to Mr. Saeed-uz-Zaman, Chief Conservator Wildlife Department as a project support for the Information Center of Ayubia National Park. Later on, he visited the project site at Namli Mera Khurd and saw the project intervention especially the slope stabilization and streams treatments initiatives undertaken under the project.

For further information contact:

Mohammad Ibrahim Khan
Manager Conservation NWFP,
WWF-Pakistan,
Peshawar
Email: ibk65@yahoo.com