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  • 100 Rupees 1976, KM# 40, Pakistan, Conservation, Tragopan Pheasant
  • 100 Rupees 1976, KM# 40, Pakistan, Conservation, Tragopan Pheasant
Description

Wildlife conservation involves safeguarding wild species and their habitats to ensure the health of wildlife populations and the preservation, protection, or enhancement of natural ecosystems. Threats to wildlife encompass habitat destruction, degradation, fragmentation, overexploitation, poaching, pollution, climate change, and illegal wildlife trade. The IUCN estimates that 42,100 species are at risk of extinction, and a 2019 UN report suggests this number may be as high as a million species. Recognizing the disappearance of ecosystems with endangered species, national and international efforts, along with conservation agreements like CITES and CBD, aim to address these challenges. Various NGOs, such as the Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, Wild Animal Health Fund, and Conservation International, contribute significantly to wildlife preservation.

Obverse

Depicts a crescent and star behind the Minar-e-Pakistan, with "Government of Pakistan" written above in Urdu, and the date below.

Minar-e-Pakistan is a national monument situated in Lahore, Pakistan. Constructed between 1960 and 1968, the tower stands on the site where the All-India Muslim League adopted the Lahore Resolution on 23 March 1940. This resolution marked the first official demand for a separate and independent homeland for Muslims in British India, as proposed by the two-nation theory. The Lahore Resolution ultimately contributed to the creation of an independent Pakistan in 1947.

The star and crescent is an iconographic symbol used in various historical contexts but most well known today as a symbol of the former Ottoman Empire and, by popular extension, the Islamic world. It appears on the national flag and state emblem of Pakistan.

حکومت پاکستان
1976

Reverse

Depicts a tragopan pheasant bird over a tree branch, value in Urdu letters at the right and numeral below.

Tragopan is a genus of birds in the pheasant family Phasianidae, often called "horned pheasants" due to the males' brightly colored, fleshy head horns that they display during courtship. Unique among phasianids, tragopans nest in trees. The genus Tragopan was established by French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1829 for the satyr tragopan. The name comes from a mythical horned, purple-headed bird described by Roman authors Pliny and Pomponius Mela.

ایک سو روپیہ

Edge

100 Rupees

KM# 40 Schön# 42
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Non-circulating)
Material Silver
Fineness 0.925
Weight 28.28 g
Diameter 38.6 mm
Thickness 2.88 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Alt # KM# MS9, KM# PS7
Mint
Royal Mint

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