What is the Friends of Indus Forum?
Ans. Friends of Indus Forum is a policy-advise and advocacy platform of conservation activists, intellectuals and passionate persons to nature who want to protect collective natural heritage, biodiversity and the resources associated to River Indus. The Forum aims to address the multiple factors that have generated diverse threats to the natural ecosystem in which the survival of the species is increasingly becoming difficult and people who depend on biodiversity and natural resources are pushed to poverty and despair. The vicious cycle of the destruction of natural resources and the resulting poverty in the ecoregion has exacerbated in the recent years. This trend has further necessitated the need to work first to put a check on poverty and then reverse current status of natural resources through preserving the ecological biodiversity and richness of the ecoregion. The task is gigantic, challenges are enormous, actors are diverse and threats coming from nature itself, human beings and
