The Express Tribune: Pakistan sets world record by planting over one million mangroves

Chairman Pakistan People’s Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, planting a sapling of mangrove to inaugurate the plantation drive. (Photo courtesy: Bilawal House)

Apr 19: The Express Tribune states that the Sindh forest department successfully broke its earlier Guinness World Record of planting the most trees in 24 hours by planting 1,129,294 mangroves on an island near Keti Bunder in Thatta district of Sindh. Pakistan People's Party Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah separately planted saplings on the island to launch the plantation drive.

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