{"id":2145,"date":"2024-01-09T07:18:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:47:54","slug":"salt-range-national-park-srnp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/?p=2145","title":{"rendered":"Salt Range National Park (SRNP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2145\" class=\"elementor elementor-2145\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74c6215e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"74c6215e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-525747c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"525747c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO briefed the directors about the rich biodiversity and unique geological features<br>that need environmental protection and offer immense tourism potential. If managed<br>appropriately, it can provide sustainable income for the park&#8217;s management. HWF has<br>initiated the environmental and social baseline for the national park thanks to the<br>support of Hagler Bailly Pakistan. Survey reports will be shared in the next board<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">meeting. CEO informed the members that the park&#8217;s length is about 45km, and its width<br>is 7km. The original declaration covered 13,000 acres, but the government has now<br>increased it to 45k acres. He then shared images of the valley through slides and<br>informed the members that the valley comprises sub-tropical evergreen scrub forest<br>dominated by a monoculture of Prosopis juliflora (mesquite), locally known as Valiti<br>kikar. This medium-sized invasive plant has nearly exterminated the local flora of<br>acacia, beri, and wild olive trees, which were lost due to commercial extraction for fuel<br>wood. This part of the park features beautiful pink salt mines and freshwater ponds.<br>Fish expert Dr. Muhammad Rafique, found endemic fish species in the park. The team<br>observed thirty one Punjab urials within a one-hour period. Gen. Najib advised to restrict<br>development such as roads in the park, as it would become a hunting ground. Since<br>they are at the initial stage of development, a single railway track could be developed<br>for visiting the area. Dr. Jamil advised that this should be part of the management plan.<br>Vaqar Zakaria informed that once the park rules and regulations are developed, they<br>could lease out recreational areas in restricted areas. 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and offer immense tourism potential. If managedappropriately, it can provide sustainable income for the park&#8217;s management. HWF hasinitiated the environmental and social baseline for the national park thanks to thesupport of Hagler Bailly Pakistan. Survey reports will be shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hwf.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}