Out of the total 667,660 hectares of the Indus delta mangroves land in Sindh, the sea intrusion area, also known as the intertidal area, encompasses 51,250 hectares.The legal status of this land has.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has announced the construction of three floating jetties and passenger sheds at Baba and Bhit islands and Mubarak village for Rs250.561 million, saying that.
Consequences of shrinking mangroves ecosystem
Business
December 20, 2020
HYDERABAD: Coastal community activists, who previously contributed in planting mangroves near their villages, have been very much concerned on the currently ongoing deforestation driven by commercial greed.
Asif Bhatti, president of native indigenous fishermen association (Nifa), representing island communities in Karachi, called the destruction of mangrove trees a part of land grabbing.
“Increasing urbanisation is eating away the coastal land, where forests used to exist long ago,” he said. “We have caught such outsiders several times near our island villages with the support of coastal agencies’ personnel, and seized boats carrying fuel wood.”