Wildlife Achieves 80pc Revenue Target: DG

Wildlife and Parks Punjab (W&PP) Director General Lt.(R) Sohail Ashraf said on Tuesday that about Rs 80 million out of Rs 100 million revenue target has so far been achieved by the W&PP

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st May, 2019 ) :Wildlife and Parks Punjab (W&PP) Director General Lt.(R) Sohail Ashraf said on Tuesday that about Rs 80 million out of Rs 100 million revenue target has so far been achieved by the W&PP.

Chairing a meeting of all regional officers of the province here in his office, the DG directed all regional officers to do their level best to complete revenue target before June 30, adding that the officers performing well would be appreciated while those failed to achieve their given targets would face departmental action.

Sohail Ashraf said that from now on, all licenses would be issued for a period of one year, while applicants could apply and get new license from their respective districts whereas these licenses could be renewed from any district of the province. He directed all the officers to cancel shooting license of hunters found in unlawful hunting.

Wildlife DG assigned Deputy Director (Wildlife Sciences) Faisalabad Sajjad Hussain to conduct audit of all wildlife breeding farms to check the sale/purchase data and other relevant details.

He also imposed complete ban on issuance of new individual possession licenses of mammals of deer family and order to check all individual possession licenses which were issued in the past so that presence of licensee and mammal could be ascertained.

The meeting decided that no wildlife inspector or watcher would be allowed to compound the case of unlawful hunting, only officer concerned would be authorized to compound the case and receive the departmental compensation.

Convener of the committee which was constituted a few weeks back to computerise data of licenses, updated the meeting that more than 95 per cent work had been completed.

Lahore Zoo Director Hassan Ali Sukhera, Deputy Director (Wildlife Headquarters) Muhammad Naeem Bhatti, DD (Wildlife Safari Zoo) Chaudhry Shafqat Ali, DD (Wildlife Publicity) Aamir Masaud, Assistant Director Mudassar Hassan, all regional and other relevant officers were also present.