How does one buy 250 acres of forest land in Pakistan?

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Re: How does one buy 250 acres of forest land in Pakistan?

@Naabigh

How did I come up with these figures … Although I am an IT consultant by profession but I have been involved in farming and live stock nixers from last two years ..

Setup - you really don’t know how it works here .. you don’t know how much money these several blood sucking government agencies/departments would suck out of you , once you show your inclination to initiate a project of such scale

**what if you don’t have proper irrigation system and electricity on your land ?

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let’s do one thing tell us the possible Set up and operational cost you can think in regard of your project - break it in chunks and then we can come up with a better estimated figure ..

Peace Naabigh

I thought you were thinking along those lines … LOL … My intent was not to “develop” but to “protect” - It will simply involve setting up a fence with sign posts and putting a small fleet of wardens and rangers in place to patrol the boundaries. Some areas may need lighting and/or electricity and the intent is to capitalise on solar and wind power and even clockwork power. If any work on logging or coppicing is required then the workers would use petrol driven tools only where necessary, otherwise work undertaken by hand. The idea however is to maintain habitat with minimal disturbance to the eco-system. It’s all about letting nature do its thing and by having ownership of it, that would hopefully prevent any chance of trees being felled for the lumber trade. Due to whatever region being allocated as nature reserve protected for special scientific interest then it would mean that studies can also be undertaken in the particular territory.

The most that would be built would be wooden huts as outposts for monitoring and may be a larger shack for laboratory work.

No farmland, no product being made … simply buying a forest to keep it alive … With this in mind how would those costs be affected?

Also because the purchase is not for commercial use per se - the territory would operate like a privatised wing of the forest ministry where they can section away a piece of woodland to be maintained privately so they don’t need to worry about it … this type of activity has been happening in the UK where sections of land are being bought by either the British Wildlife Trust or National Trust. Sometimes certain pieces of land are privately owned but they have been “lent” to the these trusts so they can enjoy funding for them and in return they allow people to visit the area for their nature appreciation walks. As a result the owners would sell this land off cheap because the potential for making money off it would be heavily limited and restricted by regulation. If a certain area of land that has been deemed protected from development is bought then this should not be as high in cost, rather any buyer would be doing the country a favour for maintaining it at his own cost, making some money back by donations and research.

Basically there is a culture in the UK for people going on walks, hikes, rambles and excursions in to nature simply to appreciate it … I feel a similar type of culture should be encouraged in Pakistan. At the moment only certain people go to see the natural areas and usually there is no formal mechanism/culture in place to maintain those areas through that type of interest.