The Banyan Tree Project — A ‘Green’-Heritage Preservation Project
Part 1: The Cost of Urbanization Is the prospect of towering high-rises so paramount as to obliterate the very green heritage that gives us life and binds us together as a nation? How are the ’soft’ questions being addressed amid the growing ‘hard’ industry in Pakistan? At what cost is urbanization finding its roots? As concerned Pakistani citizens, we understand the grave need for ‘green’ preservation, an idea that is seldom currently addressed by the necessary authorities. In a time where deforestation concerns are supplanted by political matters deemed more ‘pertinent,’ the urgency to restore and further expand former traces of green activism has been replaced by a barren void. Pakistan Chowk Community Centre in collaboration with the National Heritage Association of Karachi, has launched Pakistan’s first digital green preservation initiative, the “Banyan Tree Project.” The Banyan Tree Project, a tree rehabilitation and conservation initiative, aims to bring together activists,…