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ACT XIV OF 2014 ACT XIV OF 2014 BALOCHISTAN WILDLIFE (PROTECTION, PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT) ACT, 2014 An Act to provide protection, preservation, conservation, sustainable and management to the Wildlife, and establishment and management of protection areas in the Province of Balochistan. [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 28th March, 2014] CHAPTER IX MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS (MEAs) 61. The World Cultural and Natural Heritage Convention (WHC).---(1) The Government shall, in implementing the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (WHC), ensure the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and transmission to future generations of the natural heritage and associated cultural heritage situated in the Province as allowed by its resources, and, where appropriate, with any national or international assistance and co-operation, in particular, financial, scientific and technical, which it may be able to obtain. (2) The Government shall ensure that effective and active measures are taken for the protection, conservation and presentation of the cultural and natural heritage situated in the Province, endeavor, in so far as possible, and as appropriate-- (a) to adopt a general policy which aims to give the natural heritage and the associated cultural heritage function in the life of the community and to integrate the protection of that heritage into comprehensive planning programmes; (b) to strengthen the Department for the protection, conservation and presentation of the natural heritage and the associated cultural heritage with an appropriate staff and possessing the means to discharge their functions; (c) to develop scientific and technical studies and research and to work out such operating methods as will make the Province capable of counteracting the dangers that threaten its natural heritage and the associated cultural heritage; (d) to take the appropriate legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures necessary for the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and rehabilitation of this heritage; (e) to foster the establishment or development of a provincial facility for training in the protection, conservation and presentation of the natural heritage and the associated cultural heritage and the associated cultural heritage and to encourage scientific research in this field; (f) not to take any deliberate measures that might damage directly or indirectly the natural heritage and the associated cultural heritage; (g) submit to the Government of Pakistan an inventory of property forming part of the natural heritage and the associated cultural heritage, situated in the Province and suitable for inclusion in the national list. This inventory shall include documentation about the location of the property in question and its significance; (h) by all appropriate means, and in particular by educational and information programmes, to strengthen appreciation and respect by the people of Balochistan of the natural heritage and the associated cultural heritage; and (i) to keep the public broadly informed of the dangers threatening this heritage and of the activities carried on in pursuance of the World Heritage Convention.