Director reviews Protection and Wildlife Department achievements and projects

In a news conference on Sunday, Al-Shahwani spoke about the lists of future projects for the Department of Protection and Wildlife, including the draft national plan for the conservation of non-flying wild mammals in the Qatari environment.

The Director of the Protection and Wildlife Department at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) Talib bin Khalid al-Shahwani reviewed the national projects and strategies that the department is implementing, including the biodiversity database project in Qatar, the project to restore and rehabilitate the Qatari land, and the project to monitor and protect sea turtles as well as the effects of the decision to ban grazing on the vegetation cover and productivity of camels in the country, the strategy and the national action plan to combat desertification, and the strategy for preserving wildlife in Qatar.

In a news conference on Sunday, Al-Shahwani spoke about the lists of future projects for the Department of Protection and Wildlife, including the draft national plan for the conservation of non-flying wild mammals in the Qatari environment, and the integrated management project to control the invading myna bird in the Qatari environment, and issuing the national list of the country's wildlife, and a database of stone natural resources, and others.

In addition to the strategies and action plans undertaken by the department, he also addressed its executive tasks and achievements in this regard during the period from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021 and its vision in terms of contributing to the development and activation of the national framework for integrated environmental management of natural resources for conservation and sustainable exploitation of elements of biodiversity, combating desertification, rehabilitating degraded environmental systems, and preserving the quality of wildlife and natural stone resources.

The Director of the Protection and Wildlife Department at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment referred to the departments' role in implementing national commitments to international co-operation as the national important point for each of the international biodiversity conservation conventions, the CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), and the agreement to preserve wildlife and its natural habitats for the GCC countries.

Al Shahwani said that the department is implementing these agreements through strategic plans, regulations and laws for the purpose of sustainable management to exploit the elements of biodiversity and natural resources.

In the news conference, the Head of the Wildlife Protection Section Hadef Saif al-Mansoori, the Head of the Natural Resources Section, Ghanem Abdul Rahman al-Ghanim, and the Head of the Wildlife Section Ali Saleh al-Marri, spoke about the tasks and competencies of their sections and what they accomplished during the mentioned period as well as the main operational performance indicators related to wildlife and biodiversity services.