Chitral has diverse importance and has designated as a biodiversity hotspot of the country due to junction of Hindu Kush, Himalayan and Karakorum ranges, thus supporting maximum number of endemic plants. The conservation status of those endemic plants was assessed for three years, which have at least few points’ data as per IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria 2011, 2017and relied more on B criterion using “GeoCat” for AOO and EOO assessment. Some of the taxa were also compared with their previous status assessed ten years ago. This guideline will assist in country’s policies for conservation, threat assessment and sustainable management. Assessing a total of fifteen endemic taxa (species and subspecies), most are endemic to Chitral except Anaphalis chitralensis and Impatiens lemannii (both country’s endemic).Twelve species fall in the criteria for Endangered (EN) where as two species fall under Vulnerable (VU) and one falls in critically endangered (CE) threat category. The most CE (critically endangered) species is Astragalus commixtus with only 56 mature individuals while Astragalus erionotus, Delphinium kohatense were found to as VU (Vulnerable), rest all species like Polygonum cognatum, Plocama asperuliformus etc. are EN (Endangered). These species need immediate strategies for in-situ and ex-situ conservation for survival.

Ayesha Noor

Rizwana Khanum

Aijaz Ahmed

Ecological Questions

The fundamental task set by the editors of the journal is to bring together and present a diversity of research connected with ecology. Apart from the traditional ecological research areas, the scope of the journal will embrace more peripheral ecological issues connected with other disciplines of biology. Recognizing the increasing importance of the humanities in ecological research, the editors will strive to give such issues due representation in the journal. We hope to encourage the researchers contributing to the journal to adopt an unconventional approach to solving ecological problems, to go beyond classical, well-established conceptions, and to include methodological and anthropological issues. Such an approach is validated by the intensive development of the sciences bordering on both biology and the humanities that has been observed over recent years.

The primary task of the journal "Ecological Questions" is to gather and present a diverse range of research related to ecology. In addition to traditional ecological research areas, the journal will also embrace more peripheral ecological issues connected with other biological disciplines. Recognizing the growing importance of the humanities in ecological research, the editors will strive to ensure that such issues are adequately represented in the journal. We hope to encourage researchers contributing to the journal to adopt unconventional approaches to solving ecological problems, going beyond classical, well-established concepts, and including methodological and anthropological issues. This approach is validated by the intensive development of sciences that bridge both biology and the humanities observed in recent years.

《Ecological Questions》期刊的基本任务是汇集和展示与生态学相关的多样化研究。除了传统的生态研究领域，期刊的范围还将涵盖与其他生物学学科相关的边缘生态问题。鉴于人文学科在生态研究中的日益重要性，编辑们将努力在期刊中给予这些问题应有的代表性。我们希望鼓励为期刊投稿的研究者采用非常规的方法来解决生态问题，超越经典的、成熟的观念，并包括方法论和人类学问题。这种方法得到了近年来生物学和人文学科交叉科学的快速发展的验证。

Conservation assessment of endemic plants from Chitral Region, Pakistan

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Category	Quartile
ECOLOGY	4