The aim of the event was to impart environmental education to 250 students of schools in Hijrat Colony and Sultanabad. PHOTO: REUTERS
The World Wide Fund for Nature - Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan), in collaboration with the Karachi Youth Initiative, organised a one-day trip for students to WWF-Pakistan's Wetland Centre at Sandspit on Saturday.
The aim of the event was to impart environmental education to 250 students of schools in Hijrat Colony and Sultanabad.
It focused on increasing awareness among the youth on environment issues, team-building exercises as well as inculcating a sense of civic responsibility in them.
Students participated in the beach-cleaning drive at Sandspit, where hundreds of female turtles had arrived to lay eggs and grow their hatchlings. The area is considered an ecologically important habitat for green turtles.
The participants collected around 250 bags of garbage from the area and cleaned three kilometres of the beach.
Speaking on the occasion, Asad Shahbaz, the WWF-P's corporate relations assistant manager, stressed the need to save mangroves which currently facing are multiple threats.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 26th, 2014.
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