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Trees can be seen as the lungs of the world and by increasing their number the entire Earth will benefit from it. One of the environmental Benefit of trees is their potential to mitigate climate change by absorbing carbon as they grow. On 15th January, Zambia joined the rest of the world in commemorating world tree planting day. The UNICEF children climate ambassadors participated in the event and planted over 100 trees. The Ambassadors, in interpreting the theme ?Tree planting for poverty alleviation and economic development? for the 2012/2013 National Tree Planting season, cheerfully noted that forests can alleviate poverty if used sustainably. Many communities depend on forests for subsistence and income. In fact, forests are considered a critical link in the transition to a green economy – one that promotes sustainable development and poverty alleviation. Trees are our best friends. They play a very important role in our life. We cannot live without them. They give us timber, paper and firewood. The tree planting campaign, spearheaded by the Ministry of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, was unveiled as one response to the threat of global warming, as well as to the wider sustainability challenges from water supply to biodiversity loss. |
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14 Comments
Thank you for sharing.
Posted 30-08-2013 14:48
It is really good to involve community in tree planting.....
Posted 06-02-2013 01:55
hahaha @ Achmad.
Hey @Christy, yes! a big one actually its getting worse now so with my business we ar pushing for th use of alternative fuel made from sawdust than to have to put more pressure on forest to give fuel wen its already going out of its way giving us timber so i think it will give us a direction wen we start to use the already piling up sawdust to make fuels eco-friendly fuels. for both households and industries.
thank you thank you @Nuzul @guru @alberta @raja
Posted 04-02-2013 23:31
Thanks for the initiative you have taken on plantation.
Posted 03-02-2013 17:18
Thanks for your article and picture! What a great job you're doing there!
Posted 02-02-2013 17:21
nice initiative
Posted 30-01-2013 19:06
Great!
Posted 29-01-2013 19:58
What a noble initiative it is! Is Desertification problem common in Zambia too?
Posted 29-01-2013 10:21
you are welcome Generation UN=Jack..hehe
Posted 29-01-2013 07:36
@Achmad thanx alot for th correction i appreciate i have certainly learned something new now that i have read this it makes sense alot..
call me Jack, Generation UN is my alias.
@thanx Kehkashan @Thanx Datt @Sure Anjali we need to, i personally think that if we are to have an upper hand against climate change we need to secure our forests first make sure the green cover is there.
Posted 29-01-2013 04:44
nice initiative............
Posted 28-01-2013 00:02
Great initiative!
Posted 27-01-2013 23:28
We need to have more tree panting drives to increase the green cover
Posted 27-01-2013 21:43
Hi Generation UN..you write down very informative article.. i love it. I Just wanna correst the statement of your essay telling us: 'Trees can be seen as the lungs of the world'. The research of CIFOR (www.cifor.org)-one of my lectures whio conducted it told that 'there is the big wrong of a view toward forest which is forest is not the lung of world'. The function of lungs (alveoli) are to absorb and inhale O2, whereas the forest role is to absorb CO2 and exhale O2 when phosyntesis was ensuing. Before reading his article i also say that forests are the lung of the world.
Posted 27-01-2013 08:00