8m tonnes of plastic ends up in oceans: Experts.

ISLAMABAD -- Around 8 million tonnes of plastic waste was being dumped in the oceans across the world.

These remarks were made by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Senior Programme Officer, Coastal and Marine Natural Resources Group Maeve Nightingale at the 7th IUCN Asia Regional Conservation Forum (RCF) here Wednesday.

She said, 'Asia has 90 percent of fishermen, which is 30 million people belonging to the profession where women particularly in East Asia region have been found involved in fishing.'

Keeping in view the pollution level, Maeve said there was urgent need to develop policies and legislation for healthy legislation at the regional level. 'IUCN has been helping the Asian countries in this regard and has been undertaking various projects from community awareness and capacity building to gender equality with ecology conservation,' she added.

Maeve Nightingale was elaborating the participants about Healthy Oceans in a panel discussion moderated by Senator (R) Javed Jabbar former IUCN Vice President.

She mentioned that knowledge, skills and capacity building gaps was hindering developing countries from benefiting actual advantages offered by oceans in the context of environmental, social and economic outputs.

Chief Conservator Balochistan Forest Department Abdul Jabbar told the participants about the first marine...