Asian Development Bank (ADB), in an effort to enable communities to fight poverty and climate change, striving hard to restore the ecosystem of Pakistan’s coastal areas by planting mangroves.
ADB announced a $36 million project to restore mangrove forests along the coastline of Pakistan’s Indus Delta that would help protect the ecosystem and boost the livelihoods of communities living there.
“Pakistan’s Indus Delta coastline hosts a rich mangrove ecosystem on which coastal communities depend for their well-being. Uncontrolled and unsustainable harvesting of mangroves in the past, saltwater intrusion, and rising sea levels and other factors threaten the survival of the mangroves”, said the report by ADB.
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The aid was provided to the Sindh Coastal Community Development Project.
Earlier in 2013, the communities in the neighborhood teamed up with the Sindh Forest Department to plant some 800,000 mangroves saplings in a single day.
The move was also recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records and since then, the department has planted more and more mangroves.