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Dr Abdul Raziq Kakar With a Background of semi-pastoral agrarian family, Dr. Abdul Raziq is inheritable blessed with folk knowledge of Eco-friendly and green livestock agriculture, which ensures food and livelihood in marginalized regions of the world. His unique background prompted him to gain advanced studies/skills in animal agriculture, so he joined UAF (University of Agriculture Faisalabad, a leading institute in the region) for the achievement of tangible goals and scored up to doctorate level. First time in history, Dr. Abdul Raziq worked out lactation curve for mobile camels herds (Kohi breed) along with the factors effecting milk yield and its quality as affected by various factors like parity, lactation length, age of the camel, season of the year etc. During his field work, Dr. Raziq realized the significance of native livestock breeds (especially camel and donkey) and designed a unique module of its kind for characterization, documentation and reporting of precious native Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (AnGRFA). Having such a tremendous potential, the native AnGRFA and their keepers are very much ignored by the policy makers both at national and international levels. To give a voice to native AnGRFA and their keepers', Dr. Raziq launched concepts of Biocultural community protocol (BCP) and Livestock Keepers’ Rights (LKR) with coordination of other international colleagues and soon it was acknowledged at global level. http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G03404.pdf He assists in making decisions as voluntary consultant for Society of Animal, Vet. and Environmental Scientists (SAVES), Camel Association of Pakistan (CAP), DesertNet International (DNI), International Society of Camelids Research and Development (ISOCARD), Camels4Life and LIFE Network. Dr. Abdul Raziq is member of the Editorial boards of many well reputed international scientific journals publish regarding the animal agriculture and relevant policies.http://www.desertnet-international.org/steeringcomm_dni.php He worked as Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (FVASC) Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences Balochistan Pakistan. Recently working as Technical Manager Alain Camel Dairy, Alain UAE. The camels' farm is solely for milk production and it is one of the most efficient farm in the world. Dr Raziq is specialt Modern Camel Dairying and providing consultancy services at global level along with his core duty of camel dairying. Dr Raziq has a dream 'Turning camel from a beast of burden to a sustainable farm animal'. He says that his dream is almost true in the changing climate change situation where other farm animal especially exotic cow needs heavy inputs to sustain milk production. Also, there is ever increasing demand for camel milk because of many reasons; the main is the health benefits followed by green way of production. He is consultant trainer for Community-based breeding management and conservation of AnGRFA, Biodiversity and climate change, Ethnoveterinary, Indigenous Knowledge, Natural Health and Healing, Rangelands and pastoralism. He can be contacted via his personal email; raziq2007@gmail.com