STAFF REPORTER
KARACHI Pakistan Navy Commander Coast, Vice Admiral Faisal Rasool Lodhi opened the annual mangrove plantation campaign by planting a sapling at Port Qasim area here on Tuesday. A PN spokesman sharing details of the exercise said three million small sized mangrove trees would be planted during the envisaged campaign in the coastal areas of Sindh and Balochistan, with equal attention towards active involvement of the local people in the critically needed exercise. Mentioning that PN is playing a significant role in protection of mangrove forests on the coasts of the country, he said measures have also been adopted to sensitize coastal and fishermen communities about relevance of the same in supplementing their livelihood as well role of these mangroves in averting sea erosion besides serving as a buffer against series of natural calamities
