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Gilgit-Baltistan and climate change

By thehighasia
July 8, 2022
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Climate-=change

There is a need to assess these risks and challenges, and their impacts on biodiversity, ecology and human wellbeing of Hindu Kush-Himalaya regions

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Uberisation of farmlands

By thehighasia
November 18, 2021
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Climate-change

In the name of saving the climate, big technological and agriculture firms and corporations will uberise farmlands

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Diamer-Bhasha dam is neither green nor cheap

By thehighasia
November 17, 2021
in :  Biodiversity, Climate Change, Diamer District, Ecology, Energy, Environment, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
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Reservoir

Pakistan is pushing ahead with hydropower as a low-cost way of ‘greening’ its energy sector, but this ignores the latest research as well as the history of large dams in the country.

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A world without hunger

By thehighasia
November 3, 2021
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Hunger

There is nothing more obscene than the existence of hunger, the terrible indignity of working hard but being without the means for sustenance.

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Agha Yahya, a scholar and social reformer, dies

By thehighasia
April 11, 2021
in :  Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Conservation, Environment, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Latest, Nagar, People, Slider, Wildlife
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F. Ali Syed Yahya Shah Al-Hussaini, a noted religious scholar, political leader, social reformer, nature conservationist, folklorist and award-winning writer passed away in Gilgit on Sunday, (April 11, 2021) at the age of 85 after a brief illness. He was elected a member of the Gilgit–Baltistan Advisory Council after the abolition of Nagar State in 1975. He was re-elected a …

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Conservation: researcher critiques neoliberal fortress model

By thehighasia
February 1, 2021
in :  Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Environment, Gilgit-Baltistan, Heritage, High Asia Region, Himalayas, Hindu Kush Ranges, History, Latest, Pakistan, Politics, Resistance, Slider, Wildlife
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Calls for community-driven and managed approach in Gilgit-Baltistan By: Anmol, Shams Uddin & Anayat Baig Karachi: The neoliberal development and conservation have failed to achieve the objectives of protecting endangered species rather endangered the indigenous communities and nature. The market-driven model of conservation is aimed at colonization and securitization of people living in peripheries through the occupation of their common …

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A 3 decades study of glacier melting

Glacier lake outbursts and receding glaciers are major threatres to communities in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral

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A forgotten centenary

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Undermining the people’s will

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Baleng: The wall

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