Too often the only things we read about in western media about Pakistan are stories about corruption & violence, if media covers this beautiful country at all. This 📸 of brown bear in the country's Deosai plateau region brings me such joy.1
RT @omar_quraishi Gilgit Baltistan
RT @omar_quraishi Gilgit Baltistan
One of my former grad students is from this stunning region. Inshallah I will one day see Pakistan's beautiful wildlife and ecosystems for myself #LoveNature #Fight4Nature
Heartwarming to see such positive response from people to 📸brown bear from Pakistan, including citizens from that beautiful country. I'd love to hear about nature from other similarly under-reported or poorly reported regions of🌍 - Palestine, Syria, Kurdistan, Afghanistan etc.
I am blessed to work with many students and faculty colleagues from parts of the world that in heartbreaking political conflict, war, poverty. They are doing heroic work for conservation of plants and animals under terribly difficult conditions. I'd love to hear from you 👏🏾🌿
My own parents were political dissidents who fled political violence and human rights abuses (#Apartheid) to come to Canada. My love of plants and animals was very much inspired by their stories of spending time in nature back home. Nature contributed to their own healing 🌿
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