Pakistan fully committed to conservation of Nature: says Minister

Paris, November 08, 2015: Federal Minister for Climate Change Mr. Zahid Hamid has said that Government of Pakistan was fully committed to the objective of conservation of nature and was willing to play its role in a long term conservation strategy. He was speaking at an event organized by Global Snow Leopard Steering Committee in Paris, in his capacity as its Chairman. He appreciated the initiative of GSLSC Secretariat to organize the event. He said that the event is a timely reminder to strengthen the efforts to save the Snow Leopard from direct threats of poaching and retaliatory killing. He reminded that climate change is very real threat to the habitat of this magnificent animal and consequently to the cycle of Nature. Following is the text of the speech: