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'KETI BANDAR, Pakistan — Wildlife ranger Mohammad Jamali boats through mangrove
forests of the Indus River Delta, the terminus of a curly waterway that begins
thousands of miles upstream in the Himalayas. Birds flutter in and out. Insects
dart around mangrove roots that poke like fingers out of the mud. It looks
ancient, but this part of the forest is only 5 years old.
"We planted this," says Jamali, 28-years-old. We — rangers of the wildlife
department of the government of the southern Pakistani province of Sindh, and
locals of nearby fishing communities.
This forest in southern Pakistan is part of one of the world's largest mangrove
restoration projects, covering much of the vast delta, an area nearly the size
of Rhode Island. These trees, which exist in slivers between sea and land, are
powerhouses of sucking up the carbon dioxide that is dangerously heating up the
planet.
"They do this very big job per hectare," says Catherine Lovelock, an expert on
coastal ecology. Mangroves capture, or sequester, carbon dioxide "through their
roots and into the soil, as well as above ground," she says.
This mangrove reforestation effort alone in the Indus Delta is expected to
absorb an estimated 142 million tons of carbon dioxide over the next sixty
years. It's a test case for restoration, and planting mangroves at this scale
might help the fight to curb planetary warming.'
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