Climate Change-Driven Flood Disaster of 2025 in District Buner, Pakistan: Impacts on Humans, Wildlife, Agriculture, Infrastructure, and Local Livelihoods
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Disaster, Climate change, cloud burst, district Buner, PakistanAbstract
The current study was conducted on the recent floods disaster in district Buner Pakistan related to climate change, cloud burst and its impacts on human, wildlife, livestock, agriculture and local business. The data was collected from different sources, like questionnaires, wildlife departments, Agriculture department and livestock departments. During the survey we have reported different effects of climate changes on livestock, Wildlife, Agriculture and local business. The most effected tehsils were Gadezi (Bishuny, Malakpur, Qadar Nagar, Pirbaba, Bhaty Kaly, Bhai Kaly, Sultanwas, Ghaze khany), Tehsil Daggar (Kot Gokand, Bar Gokand, Kuz Gokand, Bagra, Topdara, Hisar Daggar), and Tehsil Gagra (Daggar hospital, Sunigram, Takhtaband, Kalpani, Bajkata, Kulyary, Matwani). We reported 240 deaths, 148 injured, 55890-acre agriculture land effected, 4405 Livestock perished, 180 house damaged, 980 shops/ markets damaged, 15 mosques damaged, and 250 vehicles damaged.
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