GILGIT BALTISTAN: Spring tree plantation drive kicked-off in Karakorum International University (KIU) in Gilgit Baltistan (GB).
Chief Minister Gilgit Baltistan Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman inaugurated the drive by planting a sapling of Deodar at the KIU Gilgit.
While addressing a huge gathering at the university, CM said more than179 million saplings would be planted in the upcoming four-years across Gilgit-Baltistan.
Chief Minister further said civil society people government officials, students and people from all walks of life should join in spring tree plantation drive.
Gilgit-Baltistan CM urged the people to come forward and plant trees to make the region green. He said forest cover in the central city is already very low as compared to other districts of the region.
He urged and instructed to concerned officials forests should be protected at any cost across the region. CM added that the people of the region should know the importance of trees. He said climate change will destroy our future if concrete measures were not taken in this regard.
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