THE MANGROVE MOMENT.

Qaiser's quest to save Karachi's last intact mangrove forest comes against the backdrop of a growing global movement to preserve those that remain and replace what has been lost. Out there is the crowded coastal megacity of Karachi, where all but a few of the mangrove forests that once defined this Indus Delta port town have been chopped down, paved over, and developed into oceanview high-rises, golf courses, and container ports. Pakistan's Indus River Delta is home to hundreds of thousands of acres of mangroves, and the country boasts one of the most successful mangrove reforestation projects in the world. In Karachi, development is encroaching on mangroves, which have long protected the city from the impacts of climate change ON A RECENT TUESDAY MORNING, SEVERAL dozen Pakistani schoolchildren barreled down a wooden walkway into a thicket of mangroves. [Extracted from the article]