The project is located in Northern Areas of Pakistan and targets to carry out a detailed study of the birds that share the habitat with Woolly Flying Squirrel and study the possible dependence of these birds on the squirrel and vice versa as well as identify threats to the existence of this endemic species which had been thought to be extinct just a couple of years back and had been rediscovered in 1994.

The main objective of the project is to save the habitat of the Wooly flying Squirrel, which is threatened because of timber extraction. The conservation of flora and fauna at the selected sites will directly contribute towards the protection of this endemic and threatened Squirrel.

Another purpose of the project is to work for the improvement of the socio-economic conditions of the communities in the project area through creation of awareness and knowledge about the use of natural resources in sustainable manner, enhancing the institutional as well as community capacity, particularly the capacity of women to play a role in the sustainable use of natural resources. Creation of awareness about improvement of agro-pastoral practices, use of water kinetic energy to help in value adding the rural products and to regulated and protect natural resources both by the communities and the government. Improvement of socio-economic conditions of communities will reduce negative pressure on natural resources in the project area. This is likely to be replicated in other areas of the wooly flying Squirrel habitat.