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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, this year will lead a tree planting exercise scheduled for June 11, 2021 to begin an ambitious greening project.
His gesture will launch a national tree planting project, dubbed “Plant a Tree to Green Ghana.”
Other high-profile personalities who will participate in the exercise at the birth of the project are Vice President Mahamadu Bawumia, Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin and Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah and Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu and Yaa Naa Abubakar Mahama II.
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, announced Friday at the House of Parliament in Accra in a statement that the Government of Ghana has set a target of five million trees under the project.
“They, and a number of other distinguished personalities, will be called upon to support the project with their prestige, planting trees publicly that day,” Jinapor said in the statement to mark the United Nations International Day of Forests, which fell on March 21, 2021.
Mr. Jinapor emphasized: “This project will allow the planting of five million commercial and other trees in the sixteen (16) Regions.
“In one day we are all going to plant a tree to make Ghana green.”
The minister said that the success of the project will significantly increase the country’s forest cover.
“In the medium to long term, we intend to accelerate this campaign so that it results in the planting of one hundred million (100,000,000) trees. This initiative is aligned with the Ghana Forest Plantation Strategy (2016-2040) and our commitments to various international agreements, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the African Landscape Restoration Initiative (FY100) and the Bonn Challenge. added.
According to the Minister, the Government plans to “mobilize the mass of our population to plant trees, nurture them until they mature and contribute to the preservation of our environment.”
Parliament, political leaders, traditional leaders, Ghanaian businesses, green world activists, local government leaders, teachers, nurses, informal sector employees and ordinary Ghanaians will be driven to contribute. with their resources, energies and support to make Ghana green. “
In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly declared March 21 of each year as the International Day of Forests.
This day is reserved to raise global awareness of the importance of all types of forests and trees outside forest enclaves. This decision was made in response to national and international concerns about the high rate of deforestation and forest degradation recorded worldwide.
Furthermore, the consequent adverse impact of climate change on the livelihoods and economic development of many nations, especially developing countries, contributed significantly to this global awareness of the need to protect the global ecosystem.
On each International Day of Forests, countries are encouraged to make local, national and international efforts to organize activities that include tree planting campaigns.
The global theme of the celebration is “Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being”.
However, Ghana has slightly modified this global issue to comply with its National Forestry Policy, hence “Restoring the forest landscape: planting five million trees in one day”.
Source: GNA
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