IUCN's mission worldwide is to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and ensure that natural resources use is equitable and ecologically sustainable. In Pakistan, IUCN played a key role in preparing a national conservation strategy, three provincial conservation strategies for the NWFP, Balochistan and Sindh and a strategy for sustainable development of the NAs. In the NWFP, one of the recommendations of the conservation strategy was to devolve governance, particularly of the environment, to administrative levels such as districts ...