natural resources

They also say the lands aren’t being adequately protected from those seeking to pillage natural resources and visitors who trash sacred sites.

He notes that China’s shallower natural resources, within 500 meters of the surface, “are almost depleted.”

Its minister for ecology and natural resources - a former oil executive that spent 26 years at Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil and gas company Socar – is the conference's chairman.

Balochistan is Pakistan's largest province and the richest in terms of natural resources, but it is the least developed.

"These people do far more than protect wildlife. They are educators. They are community supporters. And they help regulate the sustainable use of natural resources."