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Pakistani women nurture trees and pride in forest drive
2016-01-25 03:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Robina Gul has swapped her needle for a trowel. Until recently, the villager from northern Pakistan got by making clothes for family weddings and religious festivals, but now she is encouraging other women to set up tree nurseries like hers that can earn them a handsome monthly income. Gul is growing some 25,000 saplings of 13 different species crammed into the small courtyard of her two-room house in Najaf Pur, a village of around 8,000 people in the Haripur district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province....
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