ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will launch the countrywide monsoon plantation drive today.
The prime minister will plant a sapling at Fatima Jinnah Park in Sector F-9 Islamabad to encourage the masses to fully participate in the tree plantation campaign.
The nationwide activity is taking place in the rainy season of monsoon as part of the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami under the auspices of the Ministry of Climate Change. In the next few weeks, the Capital Development Authority will plant nearly half a million trees across Islamabad.
The federal capital has witnessed a massive reduction in tree cover, particularly in the last two decades. The government has carried out a massive tree plantation campaign under the Clean and Green Pakistan Initiative to improve the green cover.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Imran Khan once again urged the nation to fully participate in the government’s monsoon tree plantation drive and turn Pakistan into a green country.
The prime minister planted a pine tree in Nathiagali over the weekend. “Planting pine trees in Nathia (Gali) as part of our monsoon tree plantation campaign. I want our whole nation to participate in the greening of Pakistan,” he said in a tweet.
The prime minister had been consistently motivating people especially youth to actively take part in the “country’s biggest” tree plantation campaign.
He also made references to the monsoon tree plantation drive in the country under his government’s much ambitious 10 Billion Tree Tsunami project and Green and Clean Pakistan initiative.
“I want all Pakistanis, especially our youth, to gear up for the biggest tree planting campaign in our history. We have a lot of catching up to do,” the prime minister had said in one of his previous tweets.
In August last year, the premier launched the largest tree plantation drive in the history of Pakistan as the ruling party commemorated the ‘Tiger Force Day’. He said many of the areas in the country will turn into desert if we did not take measures to overcome the effects of climate change.
