The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has recovered a wide swathe of mangrove forests from squatters, starting afforestation efforts to save the coastal ecosystem. Over time, encroachers began cutting down ...

World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan urges govt, civil society and local communities to take collective action to protect ...

From a climate standpoint, mangroves act as natural shields, defending against cyclones, storms and tidal waves, while also ...

On a chilly night in February, Umar Dablo, a resident of Pakistan’s southern coastal city Karachi, spent three nights in his ...

Pakistan continues to lose nearly 11,000 hectares of forests every year due to wildfires, climate change, housing, and commercial projects.

Not so in Karachi. However, as is the case with most ... real estate project starts selling flats in what used to be a mangrove forest, you can decide not to live there. Special thanks to Dawn ...

equivalent emissions. This is achieved through the restoration and conservation of mangrove forests, which are known to capture and store four times more carbon than terrestrial forests.