Naeem Ashraf Raja ( Urdu: نعیم اشرف راجہ) is the Director of biodiversity in the Federal Government of Pakistan.

Career

A fellow of 'LEAD Pakistan', Raja previously served as the Assistant Inspector General of Forests in the Ministry of Environment. Besides his environmental work with the Government of Pakistan, Naeem Ashraf Raja has also worked in the

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valley with the Himalyan Jungle Project, the Chiltan Markhor Preservation Project, and has also done consultancy work with Pakistan Wildlife Foundation.Protecting biodiversity vital for poverty reduction
Dawn (newspaper), Published 23 May 2016, Retrieved 1 April 2020 Along with his work for the environment, Naeem Ashraf Raja has also published his field research in several venues, presented his research at international conferences and also reviews environment-related submissions for Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies.

Environmentalist role

Naeem Ashraf Raja often reviews and makes his comments to the Pakistani news media on the dangers to Pakistani forests and biodiversity and in 2014 was also one of the two Pakistani delegates in Geneva to have won a $3.8 million Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Readiness grant for Pakistan.

References

External links

Convention on Biological Diversity- Pakistan
Living people 1967 births Pakistani botanical writers Pakistani civil servants Pakistani conservationists Pakistani foresters People from Rawalpindi District {{forester-stub