Experts have said that the governments and other stakeholders need to make concerted efforts to halt the climate change.
They were speaking at an event titled “challenges confronting mountains and its communities” held at the Lok Virsa as part of 4th Pakistan Mountain Day celebrations.
Artists from Chitral, Gilgit-Baltistan and other mountainous areas and representatives of different organisations attended the event.
Fine arts students from different universities and colleges also participated in a live painting competition on the theme of “mountains and water”. The participants used oil on canvas media to reflect their thoughts.
Environmental impact specialist Jhanzeb Murad said that seasonal patterns were changing and extreme events were occurring due to climate change.
“Temperature is constantly increasing and, as a result, the process of glaciations is getting slow and snow cover is also getting thinner, which is impacting ecosystem and hydrological regime,” he said.
The hydrological regime change is directly impacting the inhabitants of mountainous regions in the form of frequent droughts and extreme floods, he said. President Sustainable Tourism Foundation Pakistan Aftab ur Rehman Rana talked about mountain tourism and challenges.
“Forests, lakes and high altitude peaks have become garbage dumping sites,” he said while referring to litters being thrown by people who frequent such places.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2014.
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