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On the contrary, Pakistan Forest Institute estimates it to be 5.1%. According to the survey done under the Red Plus programme in 2017, the forest cover of Pakistan is 5.7%. According to survey under Red Plus programme, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir has the highest forest cover at 36.9%, followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (20.3%), Islamabad (22.6%) and ...
Forest cover is the amount of trees that covers a particular area of land. It may be measured as relative (in percent) or absolute (in square kilometres/square miles).Nearly a third of the world's land surface is covered with forest, with closed-canopy forest accounting for 4 - 5 billion hectares of land. [1]
These forests are spread around mountainous area of Ziarat and Mount Zarghoon. [3] The mountains range from 1,181 to 3,488 meters elevation. [2] The forests cover an area of about 110,000 hectares, and it is the largest juniper forest in Pakistan. [4]
The total protected land area represents 13% of Pakistan's landmass as of 2020, The Government of Pakistan plans to increase it to at least 15% by 2023. [1] As a signatory of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity , Pakistan is committed to expanding its protected areas to encompass 17% of its total territory by the year 2030.
The Geography of Pakistan (Urdu: جغرافیۂ پاکِستان) encompasses a wide variety of landscapes varying from plains to deserts, forests, and plateaus ranging from the coastal areas of the Indian Ocean in the south to the mountains of the Karakoram, Hindukush, Himalayas ranges in the north.
The Baṛ Region, or the Baṛs (Bār) (Punjabi: بار (); Punjabi pronunciation: [bäːɾə̆]), is an area in Punjab, now part of the Punjab Province of Pakistan.The area consists of agricultural land that was cleared in the nineteenth century for the then 'new' canal irrigation system that the British were developing at the time. [1]
Abbasia; Askor Nallah; Bahawalpur Plantation; Bhon Fazil; Bhono; Bilyamin; Bund Khush Dil Khan; Chassi/Baushdar; Chashma Barrage; Chaupalia; Cholistan; Danyor Nallah
This huge pine forest stretches for 3000 km across the lower elevations of the great Himalaya range for almost its entire length including parts of Pakistan's Punjab Province in the west through Azad Kashmir, the northern Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan, which is the eastern extent of the pine forest.