Project Baghbaan · Thal, Pakistan

Project Baghbaan · Thal, Pakistan

Where the forest begins

Where the forest begins

Where the forest begins

The nursery behind Baghbaan's landscape restoration in South Punjab.

The nursery behind Baghbaan's landscape restoration in South Punjab.

2 acres

2 acres

Dedicated nursery facility

Dedicated nursery facility

600,000+

600,000+

Saplings produced annually

Saplings produced annually

9

9

Locally adapted tree species

Locally adapted tree species

4,000 ha

4,000 ha

Restoration supported, 2027–2030

Restoration supported, 2027–2030

Production is sized to plant roughly 1,000 hectares a year for four consecutive years — 2.4 million saplings in total.

Production is sized to plant roughly 1,000 hectares a year for four consecutive years — 2.4 million saplings in total.

Growing the foundation for restoration

Growing the foundation for restoration

Growing the foundation for restoration

Restoration at landscape scale depends on a steady supply of healthy, locally adapted planting material. Rather than rely on outside suppliers, Baghbaan built its own nursery — to control species selection, monitor plant health from seed to field, and keep pace with a four-year plantation programme


The nursery is not only producing trees. It is the production hub the rest of the restoration programme runs on.

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Restoration at landscape scale depends on a steady supply of healthy, locally adapted planting material. Rather than rely on outside suppliers, Baghbaan built its own nursery — to control species selection, monitor plant health from seed to field, and keep pace with a four-year plantation programme


The nursery is not only producing trees. It is the production hub the rest of the restoration programme runs on.

Building at scale

Building at scale

Building at scale

Planting stock for a landscape-scale restoration programme.

Planting stock for a landscape-scale restoration programme.

A production system built for four years of continuous supply.

A production system built for four years of continuous supply.

Every hectare restored starts as a tray of seed.

Every hectare restored starts as a tray of seed.

Built for the long term

Built for the long term

From leased land to production infrastructure — every system was built to run for the length of the plantation programme.

From leased land to production infrastructure — every system was built to run for the length of the plantation programme.

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01

Land & site planning

Cleared and levelled under a registered four-year lease, laid out for production beds, water infrastructure and staff areas.

02

02

Water security

Water security

Water security

A borehole drilled to 104 feet feeds a storage pond and sprinkler network reaching all 124 nursery beds.

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03

Renewable power

Solar power runs the water pumps and irrigation, reducing the nursery's reliance on the grid.

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04

Production facilities

Two shade structures on concrete supports, plus an operations room for supervision and record-keeping.

Quality checks run through every stage — siteworks, tube filling, germination and bed management — before a sapling is cleared for planting.

Built by people who understand restoration

Built by people who understand restoration

Built by people who understand restoration

The nursery is guided by forestry practitioners, working through species selection, nursery management and plantation preparation at every stage.

A new landscape, growing against the Thal.

A new landscape, growing against the Thal.

Building local capability

Building local capability

Building local capability

Local workers carry the nursery day to day — land preparation, seed sowing, sapling maintenance, irrigation management — and are building restoration skills they'll carry into the plantation years ahead.

The saplings raised here are the planting stock for Baghbaan's four-year restoration programme across South Punjab — the first physical proof point behind a larger ambition still to come.

The saplings raised here are the planting stock for Baghbaan's four-year restoration programme across South Punjab — the first physical proof point behind a larger ambition still to come.

The saplings raised here are the planting stock for Baghbaan's four-year restoration programme across South Punjab — the first physical proof point behind a larger ambition still to come.

Every forest starts somewhere.

Our starts here.

Project Baghbaan · Thal, South Punjab

Every forest starts somewhere.

Our starts here.

Project Baghbaan · Thal, South Punjab