The Ministry of Lands and Pure Sources in collaboration with the Forestry Fee (FC) will on Friday launch the “Tree for Life Restoration initiative” at Nkawie within the Ashanti Area.
It types a part of the ministry’s transformational panorama restoration efforts to heal and harness the setting.
Areas which have been closely degraded by unlawful mining and different drivers of deforestation will likely be restored below the undertaking.
This was made identified at an consciousness creation and sensitisation programme by the Appearing Chief Govt of FC, Dr Hugh Brown, in a speech learn on his behalf, to commemorate the International Day of Forest 2025 at Danfa within the Better Accra Area.
Organised by FC, the occasion introduced collectively Primary and Junior Excessive Colleges alongside the Ayi Malessah and Amrahia stretch to study in regards to the works of FC, the causes and results of deforestation, the significance of reforestation and wildlife conservation.
The faculties included Ayi-Malessah, Kweiman Main and Junior Excessive College, Danfa Methodist Primary, Otinibi and Aisha Bintu Primary colleges.
Addressing the pupils, the Appearing Chief Govt of FC, Dr Hugh Brown, whose speech was learn on his behalf by the Head of Company Affairs and Media Relations of FC, Mrs Joyce Ofori Kwafo, mentioned the Worldwide Day of Forest which was celebrated yearly was established by the United Nations Normal Meeting in 2012 to lift consciousness in regards to the significance of forest, bushes, wildlife and the planet.
This 12 months’s celebrations which falls on March 21, he mentioned can be within the theme; “Forests and Meals,” including that, it highlights the important function forests play within the manufacturing of meals for the nation.
Dr Brown famous that, the Minisstrive of Lands and Pure Resources and the fee determined to focus on the youth within the consciousness creation as they have been the longer term leaders.
“The data acquired right here, will assist all college students who’re the longer term coverage makers to make the rightful selections in preserving the forest panorama of the nation.”
“Forests in Ghana have come below extreme assaults over these previous years, as a result of unlawful mining, popularly often called “galamsey” unlawful farming, unlawful felling of bushes, bushfires and poaching of untamed animals,” he underscored.
These actions, he said led to forest degradation and deforestation which known as for a proactive method to handle.
Moreover, Dr Brown mentioned the was an pressing want to guard the forests as they have been supply of meals and likewise shield water our bodies and take in carbon dioxide and different gases that causes local weather change.
“Amid the developments of houses for human settlements, bushes might be planted alongside walks and driveways, in houses, on faculty and workplace premises, and church compounds, amongst others to beautify the communities and regulate the temperature within the space,” he famous.
He urged most of the people to crops bushes birthdays, commencement, anniversaries and different milestone days to commemorate these occasions.
FROM CECILIA YADA LAGBA, DANFA
