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Pakistanis Go Green To Counter The Red-Hot Sun [1]

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Date: 2022-08

1 A worker prepares planting bags for seedling plants.



Forest cover in Pakistan is approximately 5.4 percent, according to Syed Kamran Hussain of the World Wide Fund for Nature, compared to 24 percent in neighboring India and 14.5 percent in Bangladesh. High temperatures, water runoff, and poor air quality are all caused by Pakistan's lack of forest cover. To remedy the situation, both state-owned and private initiatives have been launched.



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