KP's 'billion tree tsunami' successfully surging towards its goal

[RealNapster]

Tree plantation is a eco emergency in Pakistan

As well as trees can support atleast 20-25 type of Industries.

and don't do any corruption or mismanagement in it...

hahaha.. will Pray.

 

[Jungibaaz]

Now that we have overcome economic stagnation, and after we overcome security issues, among the new problems and challenges Pakistan will face, environmental degradation will be among them. Initiatives like this are welcome news.

 

[war&peace]

Excellent initiative by the only true visionary statesman in Pakistan... A guy who can see the future and works for future.. Salute Khan Sahab

Guys is a great news!!!

@Doordie @SherDil @tps77

 

[litman]

great move. at least there is someone who thinks about the future of pakistan.
generally pakistanis think only about $$$$.

 

[graphican]

Planting a billion trees is great - but I wish at least 90% of them would stand up and grow into trees. Plants need good care early on before they settle their roots.

 

[RealNapster]

Planting a billion trees is great - but I wish at least 90% of them would stand up and grow into trees. Plants need good care early on before they settle their roots.

IF i remember correctly, so-far success rate is 91% under this project .

 

[Asad-Ali]

Kia fieda is sab ka itne peson main kuch achey school or hospital hi ban jate

 

[graphican]

IF i remember correctly, so-far success rate is 91% under this project .

Preety good. Some loss is inevitable but the lesser toy have it, the better.

It's a great program and the World should replicate it.

 

[Hollow Field]

Does someone know if we can before after satellite images, like on google earth?

 

[RealNapster]

Kia fieda is sab ka itne peson main kuch achey school or hospital hi ban jate

Sir a person can live without education but not without Oxygen, rain, river, moderate temperature etc. which all depend on Tree's.

Extreme and sudden rainfall's = due to deforestation
Flood's = due to deforestation
Land sliding = due to deforestation
Land eroding = due to deforestation
Extreme temperature i.e; Increase in mean temperature = due to Deforestation
Pollution, Increase of Carbon content in Atmosphere = due to deforestation.
and list goes on.

Waise itne Paiso me 3 saal me sirf 220 schools ban sakty the Primary. Or KP government ne Pechle 3 saal me 400 se ziada school's banaye hay. so aap ki argument bejaa hay.

Preety good. Some loss is inevitable but the lesser toy have it, the better.

It's a great program and the World should replicate it.

Exactly. I hope Punjab follow this Project. as half of our Population lives in Punjab, and extreme weather's are directly effecting half of our Population even if it only happen's in Punjab.

 

[graphican]

Exactly. I hope Punjab follow this Project. as half of our Population lives in Punjab, and extreme weather's are directly effecting half of our Population even if it only happen's in Punjab.

Absence of trees is not KP or Punjab's problem, its a global crisis. Punjab shouldn't follow KP but they must realise on their own that earth is short of trees, human life is in danger because of it Punjab needs to contribute and save trees and consequently humanity.

Watch this video and learn why trees are needed.

 

[RealNapster]

Absence of trees is not KP or Punjab's problem, its a global crisis. Punjab shouldn't follow KP but they must realise on their own that earth is short of trees, human life is in danger because of it Punjab needs to contribute and save trees and consequently humanity.

Watch this video and learn why trees are needed.

Eye Opening Video.

 

[nomi007]

great achievement by Imran Khan & kp govt

Billion Tree Tsunami

Launched in Booni, Chitral, KPK

__________________

 

[pak-marine]

KP's 'billion tree tsunami' successfully surging towards its goal

A view of a government-run tree nursery in Haripur, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.— Thomson Reuters Foundation
One of Pakistan's greenest provinces is becoming greener still: in just a year, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has added three-quarters of a billion new trees, as part of a "tree tsunami" aimed at reversing worsening forest loss.

The success on the ground is phenomenal.

"This is not just about planting trees but about changing attitudes," said Rab Nawaz, senior director of programmes for WWF-Pakistan, which has helped audit the tree-planting effort.

The Billion Tree Tsunami, which involves adding trees both by planting and natural regeneration, is backed by Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).

It aims to turn around deforestation and increase the province's forested area by at least 2pc.

Years of tree felling have reduced Pakistan's forests to under 2pc of its land area, one of the lowest levels in the region, according to a 2015 UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report.

About 40pc of the country's remaining forests are in KP, where PTI's tree planting effort is expected to hit its billion-tree goal by the end of 2017.

Scaling up saplings

In preparation for the reforestation effort, the provincial government helped set up a network of tree nurseries across the province in 2016, providing loans and purchase agreements for tree saplings.

Altogether it has spent Rs11 billion ($110 million) on the effort, said Malik Amin Aslam, the chairman of the province's Green Growth Initiative.

About 13,000 government and private nurseries, in almost every district of the province, are now producing hundreds of thousands of saplings of local and imported tree varieties, including pines, walnuts and eucalyptus, Aslam told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

The nurseries have provided about 40pc of the new trees in KP; the remaining trees have come from natural regeneration in forests now put under protection, he said.

Many small-scale nurseries, producing up to 25,000 saplings, have been set up with cash advances and a guaranteed purchase agreement from the provincial government.

Such small nurseries can earn incomes of around Rs12-15,000 a month, a sizeable income for rural villagers, said Aslam.

An estimated 500,000 green jobs have been created through the effort, some of which have gone to rural women and unemployed youth, he said.

"People have become aware that forests are KP's precious resource," he added.

Aslam said the regeneration effort is being monitored by both the provincial forest department and WWF-Pakistan, working as an auditor.

Nawaz, of WWF, said he had just returned from three days looking at 2.5 million new trees in the province. He called the restoration an amazing achievement by the government's forest department and by local communities who are paid to plant trees.

"Whether you support PTI or not, no one can deny that this is an environmental, economic and social success for other provinces to follow," he said.

Better tech and enforcement

The project is being monitored using modern technology. Last week Khan launched the project's website, which includes GPS coordinates of all the plantations and a live tree counter.

"This is a project for the future of Pakistan and something I keep very close to my heart. It is not only helping KP by providing a green, breathable environment and green jobs but is also building up Pakistan's much-needed defence against the high climate vulnerability that it faces," the cricketer-turned-politician told the the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"It significantly contributes to the global efforts for sequestering carbon and mitigating climate change", Khan added.

To protect its forests, the PTI government has also enforced a complete ban on the cutting and felling of trees in reserved forests.

The government says the activities of the powerful "timber mafia" have been curtailed through dismantling more than 600 illegal sawmills and arresting more than 300 timber cutters, as well as issuing heavy fines.

"Two of our forest guards have been killed in timber encounters while many have braved injuries," Aslam said.

"All of these steps have forced the timber mafia on to the back foot and delivered a clear political message of ‘zero tolerance' to the illicit cutting of wood."

Effort goes nationwide

The project has been recognised by the Bonn Challenge, a global partnership aiming to restore 150 million hectares of the world's deforested and degraded lands by 2020.

The KP government – the only province to register under the Bonn Challenge, officials said – has committed to restore 380,000 hectares of forests and has already achieved nearly 80pc of that goal, Aslam said.

The Bonn challenge website estimates an economic benefit of the reforestation effort at $121m for the province, in terms of carbon sequestration, better watershed improvement and future sustainable wood supplies.

The project has proven so popular that the federal government has now begun implementing its own "Green Pakistan Programme".

The aim of the programme is to plant 100 million trees all over the country over the next five years.

Impressive .. great job !!

 

[Arsalan]

Now that we have overcome economic stagnation, and after we overcome security issues, among the new problems and challenges Pakistan will face, environmental degradation will be among them. Initiatives like this are welcome news.

WATER!!
Water management is the next big blow and by the looks of it we are doing absolutely NOTHING to deal with it. It have the potential to become such a huge maniac that even the current terrorism infested era might look as good old days!
The tree plantation is a nice initiative and we should all support it as Pakistanis irrespective of our political affiliations.