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Civil society, experts join hands to address climate change and coastal vulnerabilities
Karachi
March 14, 2021
Climate change is seriously threatening the coastal belt of Pakistan and posing a serious threat to livelihoods, health, economy and ecosystems as a whole, experts said and called for public action involving youths, women, grassroots level activists and frontline communities to lead the fight.
They said mankind has only 10 years left to radically shift economies and societies to deal with a climate emergency that is threatening to push millions into hunger and poverty. They added that climate crisis is already here and now, and it is disproportionately affecting the world’s poorest people, youth, women, indigenous people and other marginalised groups.
How a proposed Sindh barrage will choke the Indus Delta
River flows won t flush out salinity if delta cut off SAMAA | Muhammad Umer Karim - Posted: Mar 7, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago SAMAA | Muhammad Umer Karim Posted: Mar 7, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago
A 1838 map of Indus Delta. This is how River Indus used to flow and spread in 17 creeks.
Sindhâs old experts have been discussing the disagreement between the irrigation department and Wapda over a Rs125 billion Sindh barrage, approved by Prime Minister Imran Khan in 2019.
Sindh has three barrages on the mighty River Indus: at Sukkur, Kotri and Guddu, which was built last. These big structures control and channel the riverâs flow of water so that the provinceâs vast canals connected to farmland can be watered to grow crops.
Animals escape fire in Ghotkiâs Sufi Anwer Shah Safari Park
Officials suspect cigarette butt started blaze SAMAA | Muzhira Amin - Posted: Feb 19, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago SAMAA | Muzhira Amin Posted: Feb 19, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago
Photo: Sufi Anwer Shah Safari Park/Facebook
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Over 1.5 acres of land in the Sufi Anwer Shah Safari Park in Ghotki was reduced to ashes after a fire erupted in the wild grass Wednesday night, said the Sindh Wildlife Department.
Immediately after the
blaze broke out, people in the nearby areas informed the authorities. âFour
fire brigade trucks were called in and the fire was doused within a few hours,â
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https://mybs.in/2YSdQgS A worker prepares plant sand bags at the Model Colony forest nursery in Karachi, Pakistan. Photographer Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg Pakistan’s arid climate and rocky deserts may seem an unlikely place to look for a green revolution, but the nation of more than 200 million people has begun one of the world’s largest reforestation programs. The government is in the first phase of planting 3.25 billion trees at an estimated cost of around Rs 105 billion ($650 million), Malik Amin Aslam, minister for climate change said in an interview. Prime Minister Imran Khan wants to extend that to almost 10 billion by the time his term in office ends in 2023.