Caretaker Chief Minister former Justice Dost Muhammad Khan has urged upon every resident of the province to plant trees during the current monsoon tree plantation drive and directed the forest department for soil testing and keep the people aware about which plant is suitable for which areas.
We have to carry out the tree plantation drive to mitigate the adverse impacts of environmental changes, averting the drought-like situation and rescuing our coming generation, he added.
These remarks, he made, while planting araucaria plant in the lawn of the Chief Minister House Peshawar to mark the monsoon tree plantation drive in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. All caretaker provincial ministers, Secretary Environment Zakir Hussain Afridi, Chief Conservator Forest Sadiq Khan Khattak, South Forest Conservator Shafqat Muneer, Director Forest Tosih Sheikh, District Forest Officer Gulzar Khan and other high ups concerned attended the meeting.
Dost Muhammad Khan said in the wake of Global warming, climate change and other numerous adverse impacts of air, aquatic and edaphic pollution, the human kind and its coming generations are under heavy threat. The province of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is very alert and vigilant to combat this alarming situation and is striving to reverse the process of retrogression, he added.
He said in this respect on one side conservation and scientific management of the existing forests resource is our focus area and on the other hand new areas are brought under forest cover through various means. However to bring a real change and address to the forthcoming challenges to improve ambient environment comprehensive and coordinated efforts are required from all walks of life.
He said we need to have a comprehensive but sustainable forest conservation, forest growing strategy and banning illicit tree cutting and to form a working group of experts to plan long term planning for forest growth, mitigating the adverse effects of environmental challenges and to have a free polluted environment.
He suggested making forests growing and treeing plantation as a part of the curriculum right from class one to ten. He asked the people to go to the villages and involve the people at grass root level keeping them aware that forest growing and tree plantation can be the best business to do.
He called upon the government functionaries using helicopters to spray seeds from above in areas to make greenery and all these efforts would contribute to combat global warming, environmental changes and pollution which had taken a dangerous shape, he concluded.
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