Chapter 3

1. R. A. Mittermeir, C. G. Mittermeir and C. Kormos, 2001, ‘Setting Priorities For Saving Life On Earth: Megadiversity Countries, Hotspots and Wilderness Areas’, Commendation Program Blue Planet Prize, The Asahi Glass Foundation.

2. This is quoted from the documentary, The Future of Food. It can be downloaded from www.mindfully.org.

3. Ignacio Chapella, biotechnologist, University of Berkeley, California, USA. Chapella’s research funding was discontinued for exposing the dangers of biotechnology. His statement is documented in The Future of Food.

4. Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005, Ecosystems and Human Well Being: Synthesis, Washington DC: Inland press.

5. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/008/a0400e/a0400e00.htm (last accessed on 27 December 2009).

6. Ibid.

7. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2004; http://www.iucnredlist.org/ (last accessed on 24 December 2009).

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. ‘Formerly including the Himalaya chain and the associated foothills in Nepal, Bhutan and India, the Indo-Burma hotspot has now been more narrowly redefined as the Indo-Chinese sub-region.’; http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots/indo_burma/Pages/default.aspx (last accessed on 17 December 2009).

14. ‘[T]he Himalaya hotspot includes all of the world’s mountain peaks higher than 8,000 metres. This includes the world’s highest mountain, Sagarmatha (Mount Everest), as well as several of the world’s deepest river gorges’; http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/hotspots/himalaya/Pages/default.aspx (last accessed on 17 December 2009).

15. Asia-Pacific Environment Report. See ‘Forests’ in Chapter 1, available at www.rrcap.unep.org/pub/eo/apeo/apeo1/Chp1c-forest.html (last accessed on 17 December 2009).

16. List of sites available at www.ramsar.org/sitelist.pdf.

17. www.wildlifeofpakistan.com/WildlifeBiodiversityofPakistan/existingwildlifeinPakistan.htm (last accessed on 17 December 2009).

18. www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/AC778E/AC778E15.htm (last accessed on 23 December 2009).

19. M. Amjad and N. Khan, 1990, The State of Forestry in Pakistan, Provincial Forest Departments, Peshawar.

20. Ibid.