Muhammad Ali Nukrich
Daily Awami Awaz,
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Muhammad Ali Nukrich is a mid-career multimedia journalist based in Karachi. He is attached with Sindhi language newspaper, Daily Awami Awaz at its Karachi office. He is NCEJ’s senior member since 2012. He mostly writes on water pollution, disaster and other environmental stories.

2. Tehseen Fatima
English:Disappearing fish stocks, soil infertility cause food insecurity http://po.st/5OT0H9
Urdu:کیٹی بندر پر سمندر دریائے سندھ کو نگل رہا ہے http://po.st/0NZRez

3. Zulfiqar Kunbhar
English:Death of the Indus Delta http://po.st/nyVTsf

4. Ammar Zaidi
English: At the mercy of high tide http://po.st/gQvO87
Urdu:ماہی گیر سمندری لہروں اور قسمت کے کرم پر http://po.st/C2xPc2

5. Faraz Wajid
English:Sea rise in Thatta turns farmers into fishermen http://po.st/D3QhTC
Urdu:ہل چھوڑا اور جال اٹھایا http://po.st/MceOQm

6. Maria Memon
English:Of neglect, pain and distress: Life of fishermen at the seashore http://po.st/RGKmCm
Urdu:یارمحمد کی آنکھوں میں آنسو کیوں آئے؟ http://po.st/TLTarx

7. Sallahuddin Abbasi
English:Sea rise dampens hope for survival of farmers, fishermen http://po.st/LiHT2d
Urdu:ماہی گیر رمضان شہر کیوں نہیں جاتا؟ http://po.st/qKABRG

8. Shaista Jaleel
English:A bleak future http://po.st/6Hqr0m
Urdu:موسمیاتی تبدیلیوں کی بھاری قیمت خواتین کو چکانی پڑتی ہے http://po.st/71IUQP

2. Aisha Shaheen
English:Sea level rise triggers migration, poverty http://po.st/Toby7v
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3. Ruqaya Iqbal
English: Climate change deepens woes for Karachi’s coastal communities http://po.st/oLhVsy
Urdu: سمندری چڑہاؤ ہ سے زندگی دشوار http://po.st/MhchsY

4. Farheen Amina Fareed
English: A changing world http://po.st/F0YCi1
Urdu: موسمی تبدیلی سے بڑھتی سمندری سطع کاپہلا شکار خواتین  http://po.st/rMnpqu

5. Zulfiqar Kunbhar
English:Rehri Goth has a public toilet. Only one. http://po.st/UI9PuS

6. Rabab Ibrahim
English:Losing to the sea http://po.st/RwWu25
Urdu: موسمی تبدیلی سے بڑھتی سمندری سطع کراچی کی ساحلی بستیوں کو نگل رہی ہے http://po.st/ipMtd5

7. Moomal Manzoor
English: Amid rising sea, Karachi’s fishermen fear the future http://po.st/3Hmti8
Urdu: ​موسمی تغیر میں قید ماہی گیر http://po.st/cn9bj3

8. Abdul Hafeez
English:Sea rise and the fisherman’s lament http://po.st/vfm5hW

9. Zulfiqar Rajpar
English: Amid rising sea, Karachi’s fishermen struggle to survive http://po.st/qG3Sla
Urdu:میگروز کی گرتی دیوار اورسمندر کی پیش قدمی http://po.st/6DRYUq

10. Shahzad Anwar
English: Fishermen, the casualties of climate change http://po.st/hhETO8
Urdu: غربت کے جال میں پھنسے ماہی گیر http://po.st/xTSZK9

11. Nosheen Ghulam Rasool
English: Sea level rise: Education a distant dream for children in Karachi http://po.st/45VLQ4

The National Council of Environmental Journalists—NCEJ conducted field and classroom training in River Indus Delta in southern Pakistan as a part of its recently launched initiatives “Reporting impacts of Climate Change on communities: Building Network and media capacity to cover climate change” in collaboration with Earth Journalism Network-EJN.

For these sessions under the initiative, NCEJ requested World Wildlife Fund for Nature or WWF-Pakistan to assist by providing technical expert who can explain to the participants on climate change and its effects on communities. WWF-Pakistan signed an agreement with NCEJ to support during Karachi and Thatta training.
For Thatta training, after a tight scrutiny, NCEJ selected nine journalists, three of them were female journalists.
For the training selected journalists travelled from Karachi to Thatta, the last district on river Indus, where Indus delta is located. First they attended classroom session.
GhulamRasool Khatri, an official of World Wildlife Fund for Nature, WWF-Pakistan delivered a detailed presentation on how deltaic communities are suffering with changing clime, seal level rise and seawater intrusion.
The led trainer of these sessions, renowned environmental journalist and president NCEJ, Amar Guriro hold classroom session and explained the participants about the different aspects of climate change and its impacts on communities.
The participating journalists expressed their views on becoming NCEJ members and said that they were happy to be part of this national forum.
Later, the participants were taken to the Indus delta field training. The participants visited many coastal settlements and hamlets and remote villages to talk to the communities on how they are suffering with impacts of climate change.
During the flood training, NCEJ newly members covered wonderful stories, which were published by our media partners, The Nature News, Pakistan’s first ever newspaper covering environment, climate change and science.

The National Council of Environmental Journalists—NCEJ conducted a field and class room training in Karachi as a part of its recently launched initiatives “Reporting impacts of Climate Change on communities: Building Network and media capacity to cover climate change” in collaboration with Earth Journalism Network-EJN.
For the remaining sessions under the initiative, NCEJ requested World Wildlife Fund for Nature or WWF-Pakistan to assist by providing technical expert who can explain to the participants on climate change and its effects on communities. WWF-Pakistan signed an agreement with NCEJ to support during Karachi and Thatta training.

For Karachi training, after a tight scrutiny, NCEJ selected eleven journalists, six of them were female journalists. Ali Dehlavi, Senior Manager, Building Capacity on Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Areas of Pakistan (CCAP) project of WWF-Pakistan, attended the classroom session as an expert and explained the participation on technicalities related to climate change and status of impacts of climate change on different biodiversity hotspots in the country.
Latter, UmairShahid, North Indian Ocean Coordinator of WWF-Pakistan explained the participants on the impacts of climate change on fish and how reducing fish catch has affected the coastal communities.
The led trainer of these sessions, renowned environmental journalist and president NCEJ, Amar Guriro hold classroom session and explained the participants about the different aspects of climate change and its impacts of communities.
The participating journalists expressed their views on becoming NCEJ members and said that they were happy to be part of this national forum.
Later, the participants were taken to the coastal areas for field training. They travelled from city to the Ibrahim Hyderi. Participants visited fishing jetty and talked to fishermen on how they are suffering with fish catch.
They visited office of Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, an NGO working for the betterment of fishermen, where NGO’s head Muhammad Ali Shah explained them how fishermen communities are suffering with changing climate. Later they visited Chashma Goth, another historical fishermen hamlet located on the edges of Arabian Sea, where communities are suffering with sea level rise and sea water intrusion. They communities explained the participants that how they have adopted different indigenous methods and scientific knowledge to avoid possible threats of sea level rise.
During the flood training, NCEJ newly members covered wonderful stories, which were published by our media partners, The Nature News, Pakistan’s first ever newspaper covering environment, climate change and science.

Maria Ismail
Daily Awami Awaz ; Daily Anjam
Karachi, Sindh

Maria Ismail is a young and energetic environmental journalist based in Karachi. She in 2007 started her career in journalism with Daily Aaj Kal Urdu in Karachi. She also worked in Daily Barsaat (Sindhi), Daily Moomal (Sindhi) and also with Haq TV.
She joined premier Sindhi language newspaper, Daily Awami Awaz in 2011. She is reporting on general environment, impacts of Climate Change, Health and also Environmental Tribunal. She is senior member of National Council of Environmental Journalists (NCEJ). She has recently attended classroom and field training in Thatta and reported stories on “impacts of climate change on communities”

Shaista Jaleel
Freelance Journalist,
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Shaista Jaleel is a freelance multimedia journalist. She often contributes print and video stories to Voice of America (VOA)’s Urdu service and also to other media outlets. She often covers women issues, health and issues related to environment and disasters.

She has recently joined National Council of Environmental Journalists (NCEJ) and attended classroom and field training in Thatta and reported stories on “impacts of climate change on communities”

Sallah U Din Abassi
Reporter,
Associated Press of Pakistan (APP)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Sallah U Din Abassi is senior journalist and working with state-owned wire service, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) as senior reporter. He covers social issues, health and environment. He is senior member of National Council of Environmental Journalists (NCEJ). He has recently attended NCEJ’s classroom and field training in Thatta and covered stories on “impacts of climate change on communities”.

Syed Ammar Zaidi
Freelance Journalist,
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Syed Ammar Zaidi is a senior journalist and worked with different national media outlets in the past and is working as freelancer nowadays. He contributes stories on regional cooperation, politics and he is interested to cover stories related to environment, climate change and wildlife.
He has recently joined National Council of Environmental Journalists (NCEJ) and attended classroom and field training in Thatta and reported stories on “impacts of climate change on communities”

Faraz Wajid
Senior Producer,
Bol Television Network,
Karachi Sindh, Pakistan

Faraz Wajid is a senior electronic journalist based in Karachi. He works as producer with Bol Television Network. He mostly works on political stories, but he is very much interested covering environment, climate change and disaster.

He has recently joined National Council of Environmental Journalists (NCEJ) and attended classroom and field training in Thatta and reported stories on “impacts of climate change on communities”