Tree Plantation Vital To Deal With Pollution

Increasing pollution and weather changes are harmful for survival of humans and other living organisms and to counter this harm the best way is to plant maximum trees.

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th Jul, 2018 ) :Increasing pollution and weather changes are harmful for survival of humans and other living organisms and to counter this harm the best way is to plant maximum trees.

The Forest department sources told APP on Wednesday That department had established about 354 sale points throughout the province for selling saplings and to facilitate the general public besides encouraging them for tree plantation, the sources added.

Initiative like setting up green pockets on available irrigation land in all districts of the province and under this project 100,000 plants would be planted in each district which the sources added would contribute in improving environment.

The sources said the department had always strived for planting more trees against the fixed target during a spring tree plantation campaign and to acheive desired results besides Pak Armed forces, Rangers, schools & colleges and industrial units had been included in tree plantation campaign.

The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) sources said that during 2013 to 2018, about 125,946 trees had been planted in provincial capital and more trees of a minimum height of six to seven feet were also being planted.

Advertisements were being published in local newspapers, of some local plant species that were free of cost.

The Forest department experts said: "Planting trees is often the quickest and most effective way of producing new biomass, thus helping to offset the loss of carbon resulting from deforestation or forest degradation".Investing in new carbon stocks has great potential to make a significant, fast and measurable impact on climate change without requiring sweeping changes in policies, cultures or national economies.

Several developing countries, notably in Asia, have demonstrated that major investments in planted forests could reverse the trend towards deforestation and result in a net increase in forest area.

Planted forests must be designed for local conditions, trees must be appropriate, ideally native species; and planting programmes must take local cultures and economic conditions into account, the experts concluded.