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Campaign of PWP at the Shandur Polo Festival 2010 |
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The purpose of the activity was the proper collection, segregation of biodegradable and non-degradable material, disposable of solid waste and awareness raising among the visitors of the polo festival. The PWP staff along with its partners successfully completed the assigned task and disposed off approximately over 1200 kg organic solid waste in a selected landfill site to the southeast of the Shandur wetlands complex. The GB-Forest, Wildlife and Parks Department, Seed Programme, EVK2CNR, Gilgit Baltistan Environmental Protection Agency (GB-EPA), Shandur Local Support Organization Teru (SLSO Teru) did not participate physically, but provided moral and financial support from the very beginning to the end of the festival at Shandur. Additionally, the reps and volunteers of Shandur Welfare Society (SWSL) Laspur, Chantar Walfare Society Broghil, officials of Forest and Wildlife Department Khyber Pakhtunkha, were fully involved and gave their enthusiastic support during the solid waste clean up and awareness raising. The EVK2CNR, Seed Programme Gilgit donated 90 dustbins (drums) for installation at different points around the Shandur festival vicinity. PWP, EVK2CNR, Seed Programme and GB EPA provided bags to the volunteers and shopkeepers to be used for dumping their rubbish. Other local polo visitors joined the wetlands team as volunteers and helped during the clean up of the solid waste. An eco check post was also established at the entrance point of both Gilgit and Chitral side where staff from Khyber Pakhtunkha province Wildlife department were deputed to distribute awareness raising material including stickers, posters, leaflets, brochures among the visitors of the polo festival. The wetlands team provided white color T-shirts, caps, bright yellow jackets to the volunteers during the polo festival. All these had printed messages with the logos of partner organisations and slogans i.e. Wetlands Warriors and Shandur lake picture on white T-shirt. The bright yellow jackets, caps and white shirts really distinguished the Wetlands team among the big crowd at the site. Public messages were announced from the commentary box during all polo matches about keeping the lake and other sites clean. Col Mushtaq organised awareness workshops at the FC and Chitral Scouts camp in the evenings which consisted of presentations on biodiversity and wetlands, rounding the workshop with a quiz competition. At the final match, the Wetlands volunteers organised an awareness walk from one side of the Polo Ground to the other side, raising slogans i.e Shanduro Bach Kro, Shandur Bachao and Save Shandur in front of thousands of polo spectators. Dr. Humaira Khan
For further Information
Nasir Malik, Coordinator Awareness-raising and Communication
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The Pakistan Wetlands Programme head office, Northern Alpine Wetlands Complex site office, its Field office Chitral and Gilgit Regional Operations Base along with other partner organizations i.e. Seed Programme of EvK2CNR and Gilgit Baltistan Environmental Protection Agency jointly conducted a solid waste management and awareness raising activity during the Shandur Polo festival on July 7-9 2010 at the Shandur wetlands complex. 
