Impacts of mining on local fauna of wildlife in District Mardan & District Mohmand Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan

Abstract

Mining is vital for human sustenance and a crucial sector in the state economy. However, its impacts on the environment and biodiversity cannot be underestimated. Which are potent to the attract government’s attention. Environment and wildlife are subject to the harmful impacts of mining and its related activities. In this study, districts, namely Mardan and Mohmand have been targeted with respect to mining impacts. The assessment was carried out on wildlife adversely affected by the mining sector. The fauna has been keenly observed to bring the calculated risks and threat perception of the regional wildlife. Total 9 species of mammals, 21 species of birds, were recorded in District Mardan. While in District Mohmand 2 species of mammals, 9 species of birds, and 4 species of reptiles were studied. The Study explored that mining primarily responsible for land degradation. Which lead to food and agriculture losses. Several other factors like blasting, pollution, hunting, deforestation, habitat loss was also observed. Deforestation surfaced one of the major causes for extinction of fauna in the said region. preemptive measures are needed to seize the man-made catastrophe.

In Pursuit of New Spaces for Threatened Mammals: Assessing Habitat Suitability for Kashmir Markhor (Capra falconeri cashmeriensis) in the Hindukush Range

“…These PAs include the CGNP and the two conservancies, TSC and GGC. The habitats in these areas are largely protected from human activities by the government in coordination with the local communities [33], thereby providing a refuge of 1878.75 km 2 for the markhor. Our model further revealed that small patches of highly suitable habitat exist in Dir and Swat districts, south of Chitral district.…”

“…Globally, markhor is listed as Near Threatened [31] and endangered in Pakistan [32]. The subspecies mentioned above face many anthropogenic pressures akin to overgrazing leading to habitat degradation and habitat fragmentation due to infrastructure projects coupled with climate change [33]. These factors are proving fatal to the survival of this magnificent species in the long term.…”

“…Information about the suitable habitats of mountain ungulates in Pakistan is scarce. Considering the habitat potentials of northern areas of KP Province Pakistan [33], we predicted that vast suitable habitats for Kashmir markhor exist outside the protected areas (PAs). Hence, the first study objective was to assess and evaluate potential habitats for Kashmir markhor, and the second, to suggest recommendations for possible expansion and better management of PAs network in the study area.…”

Study of the Pollution Generated by Wastewater from the Refining of Vegetable Oils

“…Moreover, phenols and detergents significantly impact humans in the short and long term [13,59]. Furthermore, the discharge of vegetable oils loaded with pollutants into seawater and rivers without prior treatment poses severe problems for the aquatic flora and fauna (Lika andPapadakis, 2009, Rehman et al, 2014) [60,61]. The same authors showed that phenols and highly toxic and corrosive detergents are considered priority pollutants.…”

Geoscience education in Ghana: status and recommendations

“…This may have led to major developmental problems, mismanagement of natural resources, destruction of the environment through indiscriminate illegal and unsustainable mining, waste disposal and agricultural activities. These activities have resulted in the destruction of land and vegetation, pollution of water, air, and soil (Mensah et al, 2015;Kodua & Anaman, 2020;Lissah et al, 2021;Rehman et al, 2021;Gbedzi et al, 2022). Studies have reported the harmful effects these activities have on humans, animals, and plants (e.g., Apambire et al, 1997;Anku et al, 2009;Mensah et al, 2015;Daum et al, 2017;Aboka et al, 2018;Obeng et al, 2019., Araya et al, 2022Sunkari et al, 2022).…”