Effective strategies for environmental awareness and managing natural resources integrate the livelihood needs of rural/urban communities in ways that alleviate poverty and contribute to long-term conservation of natural ecosystems.

• To develop working models for integrated, small scale, enterprise systems that link rural livelihoods to natural resource conservation.
• To build long-term partnerships with conservation organizations, local communities, government agencies and the private sector in pursuit of conservation goals.
• To design and implement rigorous methods for monitoring and assessing the effectiveness of WLO’s activities to improve human livelihoods and conserve resources.
• Develop management guidelines, services and products that are essential for natural resource based indigenous business systems.
• To apply WLO’s integrated business models to a broad range of conservation sites and products.

Help local communities to understand ecology and implement sustainable measures to achieve these goals.

Involve local NGO’s, Community Organizations and CCBs to build capacity of their area about environment awareness.

Arrange seminars and lectures in primary schools about awareness and knowledge.

WLO helps various groups and non-governmental organizations in capacity-building and strengthening of animal and bird habitats.

Hardwood plantation on public and private land. Have plantation drives with local communities and youth for environmental awareness.

During our Green Vehari initiative we planted 100,000 hardwood saplings on the 14^th of August in 2009

In October, 2010, WLO planted 10,000 hardwood trees with the help of the Punjab Forest department and the Shizouka University, Japan

Work with communities to qualify for carbon credits through conservation of their existing assets and implementing new ways to get CERs.

Part of the Panacea project is to have an organic farm in each village of the UC-85. This is done through the collaboration of the WLO and Panacea Cooperatives. This cooperative is certified by Pakistan Organic Foods Directorate, and in process of Global Gap and Euro-gap certification. These farms practice modern organic farming practices without the use of any pesticide, fertilizer or any other inorganic materials.

A group of twenty farmers including ten women have been trained by the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council for Organic farming. These farmers are working as master trainers to train other farmers for best practices.

WLO is in a process of registering first Organic farming cooperative in Pakistan with the regulatory departments of the government.

Panacea Project is also promoting ecology and bees are important factor in pollination and environmental growth along with the economic and nutritional supplement to the rural population. A group of twenty farmers including ten females have been trained as master trainers by the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council. These individuals are not only earning good revenues from their own bee farms but they are also training other farmers and land less women for sustainable means of income generation.