ABOUT COMPANY
Wakhan Wildlife Tracks Pvt. Ltd is a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working on overall rural development focusing mountain communities of Hindukush, Karakuram and Pamir region. WWT is considered as a non-profit, non-religious, and non-political civil society organization rendering services mainly in the field of wildlife conservation, Water & Sanitation, Food security, Education, Health and Livelihood. WWT was founded in the year 2009 by a group of dynamic professional volunteers and got registered under the section 42 of the companies’ ordinance 1984 (XLVII 1984) in the year 2014.
It has its liaison office based in Gilgit with field offices in Hunza. WWT aims primarily at serving humanity irrespective of their age, sex, race, nationality, and membership to a particular social/political group, and/or any other affiliation or segmentation, thereby fostering a society that respects human rights as well as animal rights above all and treats all individuals with respect, dignity, and equality as postulated in the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and ‘Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investments – animal rights (2014).
Why WWT!
Primarily, WWT has come into existence to address wildlife, afforestation and challenges related to community development and encourage as well as guide community participation to improve the quality of life of local residents in areas where development benefits are not yet reached ensuring safety and basic life facilities for the poor, neglected, and/or marginalized segment of the population as well as wildlife.
While many non-governmental organizations at local, regional, national and international, have been working in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral as well as across the country with multi-sectoral projects but it has been revealed that some of the sectors need further attention in a sustainable way.
WWT is composed of volunteers and professionals from Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. Its local origin and organizational composition allowed WWT the unique position to easily access local communities for mobilization of their resources and actualize the concept of sustainable development through self-reliance. Close observation from a local perspective renders keen judgmental ability to an organization and that is why WWT exists – to count on local indigenous knowledge, capability of specific needs assessment, and ability to mobilize local resources for bringing about awareness, social cohesion and sustainable development.
The basic philosophy behind the formation of the organization is, to develop a society, where every individual enjoy equal opportunities and benefit of development where everyone delivers for the collective benefits of the society and respects for wildlife and biodiversity.
