Urban Forest — Miyawaki Forests for Karachi
After Karachi's deadly 2015 heatwave, one engineer began planting dense Miyawaki forests to cool Pakistan's biggest city.
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After Karachi's deadly 2015 heatwave, one engineer began planting dense Miyawaki forests to cool Pakistan's biggest city.
A citizen-scientist network put Pakistan's invisible smog on the map, one low-cost monitor at a time.
In Punjab's Narowal District, seven solar-powered irrigation systems let farming households ditch diesel, save water and diversify their crops, and 1,280 women were trained alongside.
HANDS reports 5,380 villages declared open-defecation-free through its work, alongside constructed wetlands that clean toilet wastewater and school WASH clubs run by students.
Coastal communities and WWF-Pakistan have replanted tens of thousands of hectares of mangroves that shield the Indus Delta from cyclones and rising seas.
A Pakistan-founded NGO builds predator-proof livestock corrals and community insurance schemes across Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral so herders stop losing snow leopards to retaliatory killing.
Yasmeen Lari stopped designing landmark buildings at seventy and started teaching flood survivors to build their own shelters out of bamboo, lime and mud — for about forty dollars each.