{"id":78982,"date":"2021-08-25T11:45:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T06:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=78982"},"modified":"2021-08-25T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T06:45:49","slug":"barren-land-transformed-into-urban-forest-in-lyari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/barren-land-transformed-into-urban-forest-in-lyari.html","title":{"rendered":"Acres of barren land transformed into urban forest in Lyari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: Under a forestation project launched early this year, fifty acres of barren Lyari riverbed in Kemari district has been transformed into an urban forest with thousands of native trees, according to a news published on August 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/center-sindh-to-work-for-restoration-of-lyari-malir-rivers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center, Sindh to work for restoration of Lyari &amp; Malir rivers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Implemented by the forest department, as many as 73,500 trees have flourished on both sides of the riverbed between Shershah bridge and Mauripur bridge under the first phase of the Lyari urban forest project. District forest officer Maqsood Ahmed said that the project will soon be extended to a larger area. He said that these trees will help regulate the monsoon flood, prevent sea intrusion and improve the air quality in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mangroves-plantation-campaign-conducted-sindh-coastal-areas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mangroves plantation campaign conducted in Sindh\u2019s coastal areas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources, the forest department has launched several plantation initiatives and has grown thousands of native plants in the localities of Memon Goth, Model Colony, Shah Faisal Colony, Jinnah Gulistan-i-Jauhar, International Airport area, Bin Qasim town, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Park in Clifton, along M-9 Motorway and National Highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Ahmed also revealed that the department has grown an additional 320,000 trees since 2019 in other parts of Karachi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Under a forestation project launched early this year, fifty acres of barren Lyari riverbed in Kemari district has been transformed into an urban forest with thousands of native trees, according to a news published on August 23. Read: Center, Sindh to work for restoration of Lyari &amp; Malir rivers Implemented by the forest department, as many as 73,500 trees have flourished on both sides of the riverbed between Shershah bridge and Mauripur bridge under the first phase of the Lyari urban forest project. District forest officer Maqsood Ahmed said that the project will soon be extended to a larger area. He said that these trees will help regulate the monsoon flood, prevent sea intrusion and improve the air quality in the area. Read: Mangroves plantation campaign conducted in Sindh\u2019s coastal areas According to sources, the forest department has launched several plantation initiatives and has grown thousands of native plants in the localities of Memon Goth, Model Colony, Shah Faisal Colony, Jinnah Gulistan-i-Jauhar, International Airport area, Bin Qasim town, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Park in Clifton, along M-9 Motorway and National Highway. Mr Ahmed also revealed that the department has grown an additional 320,000 trees since 2019 in other parts of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":68393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,15016],"tags":[47712],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-new-developments","9":"tag-acres-of-barren-land-transformed-into-an-urban-forest-in-lyar","10":"cat-15181-id","11":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barren land transformed into urban forest in Lyari - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: Under a forestation project launched early this year, fifty acres of barren Lyari riverbed in Kemari district has been transformed into an urban\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/barren-land-transformed-into-urban-forest-in-lyari.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Barren land transformed into urban forest in Lyari - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: Under a forestation project launched early this year, fifty acres of barren Lyari riverbed in Kemari district has been transformed into an urban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/barren-land-transformed-into-urban-forest-in-lyari.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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