One Billion Trees Planted in KPK!

[Finer]

When did people get this right to "free" water? It is a resource like any other, whose safe and adequate distribution takes a lot of effort, time and money to ensure.

It is called taxes. Taxes in exchange for basic rights; water for starter. We are not talking about 1st-world problem here.

 

[VCheng]

It is called taxes. Taxes in exchange for basic rights; water for starter. We are not talking about 1st-world problem here.

If people pay taxes for any services, then those services, by definition, are not free.

 

[Finer]

If people pay taxes for any services, then those services, by definition, are not free.

Since people pay taxes for basic rights which one of them is water, for them it is supposed to be technically free which is now deprived from the common people. So what exactly does people pay tax for? Make-up artist teams to groom Nawaz Sharif as model looking star?

 

[VCheng]

Since people pay taxes for basic rights which one of them is water, for them it is supposed to be technically free which is now deprived from the common people. So what exactly does people pay tax for? Make-up artist teams to groom Nawaz Sharif as model looking star?

So no one has a right to free water, or any other resource, unless they pay taxes. There is no "right to free water".

 

[Indus Pakistan]

I would love to see that not single tank of water will be wasted

So let's get this right. If you were a advisor to the government amongst other things you would order chopping down of every tree in Pakistan to save water? In your scheme of things a barren desert bereft of any natural greenery is great thing because it saves water? Turning all of Pakistan into desert is bravo !

Where did you get your education? Trees and plants retain, yes retain water you idiot. They do this by first giving shade to the ground reducing ground temperature. This reduces the earth from cooking and evapourating all the moisture eventually turning into sandy desert? As temperature rises it sets off a cycle where it's gets even warmer. The soil turns into sand as it loses moisture which then sets of surface erosion which destroys farming land or turns slopes into unstable earth. When it does rain the water runs on the surface building up speed which encourages dangerous flash floods.

The reverse this process you plant trees. which then bind the soil and give cover which encourages moisture to be retained in the soil. The ground gets binded by the roots and soil gets enriched with nutrients. The soil turns into more like sponge and retains water only slowly losing it. This helps to stablize river flow and prevents floods. Protecting trees and planting more is recognized across the world as the best way to improve the environment.

 

[Kabira]

I am glad someone with authority was stupid and imbecile enough to risk making the reality of Mangla Dam which took evacuation of million homes for displacement in exchange for approved visas for UK. Otherwise, Pakistan wouldn't have lasted with the only source for energy sector and water despite water already being scarce as it is.

Plant trees but who cares about waters as people can live without water.

Feel free to blame India/USA/Israel, and that way Kaala Baag dam will magically appear.

Kalabagh along with other dams are important as every other year floods are just around the corner and all that water can be stored for later use. But planting trees is equally important. I just hope this news is actually true and they can prove it.

More then anything Pakistan need to reduce use of wood for papers and cooking. Both are possible with digital age and gas.

 

[Finer]

Kalabagh along with other dams are important as every other year floods are just around the corner and all that water can be stored for later use. But planting trees is equally important. I just hope this news is actually true and they can prove it.

More then anything Pakistan need to reduce use of wood for papers and cooking. Both are possible with digital age and gas.

That is why Kaala baag dam as contingency plan is very important to ensure that the water crisis can be resolved in the long run.

Otherwise, it is smack on the face of common people dying from lack of access to water while gazillion tanks of water are allocated to elite clubs/bahria-town projects, and billion-trees to maintain.

So no one has a right to free water, or any other resource, unless they pay taxes. There is no "right to free water".

It is free water in a sense if taxes is assumed as mandatory. Since taxes is mandatory as law, therefore, the exchange service for basic rights like rights to practice faith/culture, and free-water right are as GOD-given-right as mandatory taxes.

 

[Clutch]

 

[N.Siddiqui]

This is the best video of the Billion Tree Tsunami...I was following it on other forums and here. The best project in the history of Pakistan, trees are the harbingers of replenishing the fragile ecosystem in the world...nothing is more important than preserving and planting trees, as essential as saving life itself.

Gives me immense pleasure, a billion reason for birds and fauna to flourish in these trees and forests. A billion reason for other animals and fauna and flora to survive and thrive.

Billion trees is a huge quantity...about 5,00,000 people are associated with it, giving income to as much families. tens of thousands of razakars...truly this will help in stopping the ozone layer depletion. The melting of glaciers in Pakistan will be slower and more rains will come...more trees means more rains , more water and more overall prosperity.

16000 Hectares of Afforestation in Southern KP

Peshawar Forest Division Update

Mr. Javed Arshad CF Watershed Visited / Inspected BTAP Departmental Nurseries (Phase-III) on 12.07.2017 – Havelian Watershed Range, Daur Watershed Division.

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Kaldam Plantation of Area 55 ha, Darosh, Chitral Forest Division under BillionTreeTsunami

Bannu Forest division progress

Kalkatak Plantation Site of area 34 ha, Under BTT Darosh Forest Sub Division Chitral

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Beautifully designed Nursery raised under Billion Trees Afforestation Project For Phase-III by SDFO Sardar Riasat and Syed Mujtaba shah Abbottabad.

A Step Away from a Target of Billion Trees... Monsoon Plantaition is in full swing. The Target of Billion Trees will be competed in current Monsoon Plantation Season.

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Natural Forest Regeneration under Billion Tree project

Pumba plantation site Mr. Tariq Khadim DFO Mardan Forest Division visted the site under Billion Tree Tsunami

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Ariel view of D.I Khan Plantation

Visit of Secretary FE&W Department to Chitral Forest Division. Inspected different plantation site under Billion Tree Tsunami

CF Watershed Mr. Javed Arshad visits to different plantation site in Siran Watershed sub Forest Division under BTT

Chitral Police helping to plant thousands of Deodar/Himalayan Cedar trees in Qaqlasht under BTT , Chitral

Shenai Dodhial & Makreha (Shinkiari) tubes and Broadleaf nursery under BTP

Billion Tree Tsunami is the best environmental preservation project in Pakistan history. Will help in stopping the depletion of ozone layer and the rising temperatures and the subsequent fall in rain and will stop the melting of glaciers in northern Pakistan. Pakistan gets most of the water from glaciers and preserving them is most important.

Peshawar should witness more trees, big shady and with thick foliage and not much is required to maintain trees, unlike flower beds, so that can be avoided.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Natural Regeneration in Siran Forest Area under Billion Tree Tsunami.

Departmental Nurseries under Billion Tree Tsunami.

 

[Vortex]

ISLAMABAD —
Pakistan’s northwestern province, Khyber Pakhtunkhaw (KPK), has planted an unprecedented 1 billion trees in just more than two years and surpassed an international commitment of restoring 350,000 hectares of forests and degraded land.

The massive effort aims to turn the tide on land degradation and loss in the mountainous, formerly forested KPK, which lies in the Hindu Kush mountain range.

Imran Khan, head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party governing the province, launched the reforestation campaign, dubbed “Billion Tree Tsunami,” in 2015.

Pictures of a river bank before and after the Billion Tree Tsunami campaign.

Goal reached early

The cricket-star-turned politician revealed to VOA that the goal of adding 1 billion trees by planting and natural regeneration has been achieved this month, well ahead of the original deadline of December 2017.

He says his party plans to organize a special event in Islamabad in late August to celebrate the successful completion of the project, and experts as well as foreign diplomats will be invited.

“We will show them by coordinates, on Google map you can go and see where these trees have been planted, 1 billion trees, this is now the model for the rest of Pakistan,” Khan said.

Punjab, Sindh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, Pakistan

High deforestation rate

Pakistan is seventh on the list of the countries mostly likely to be affected by global warming and has one of the highest deforestation rates in Asia. Decades of tree felling have reduced the country’s forests to less than 3 percent of its land area. About 40 percent of the remaining forests are in KPK.

Khan hopes his reforestation drive will decrease the effects of global warming and natural disasters like floods that cause devastation in KPK and elsewhere in Pakistan every year.

“If you plant trees, we have discovered, by the river banks it sustains the rivers. But most importantly, the glaciers that are melting in the mountains, and one of the biggest reasons is because there has been a massive deforestation. So, this billion tree is very significant for our future,” Khan said.

Bonn Challenge

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in a statement Friday congratulated the Pakistani province on reaching the “momentous milestone.”

“This marks the first Bonn Challenge pledge to reach its restoration goal,” the organization noted.

The Bonn Challenge, set up in 2011, calls for the restoration of 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded lands by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.

More than 20 countries have so far responded to the challenge, expressing an ambition to restore more than 60 million hectors by 2020 with more commitments expected.

KPK’s reforestation campaign made it the only province or subnational entity to be included in the Bonn Challenge.

“The Billion Tree Tsunami initiative is a true conservation success story, one that further demonstrates Pakistan’s leadership role in the international restoration effort and continued commitment to the Bonn Challenge,” acknowledged Inger Anderson, director general of IUCN.

Nurseries produce 25,000 saplings

Provincial officials say the campaign has achieved its restoration target through a combination of protected natural regeneration, 60 percent, and planned afforestation, 40 percent.

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


The KPK government has invested $123 million to help establish 13,000 private tree nurseries in almost every district of the province, producing hundreds of thousands of saplings of local and imported tree varieties, including pines, walnuts and eucalyptus, officials say.

Local economies benefit

This has boosted local incomes, generated thousands of green jobs, and empowered unemployed youth and women in the province. An additional $100 million will be allocated to maintain the project through June 2020.

“This support makes the project one of the largest eco-investments ever made in Pakistan,” according to the IUCN.

It noted the newly planted trees are reinforcing riverbanks and add tree resources to agricultural lands engaged in farm forestry. They also improve biodiversity by restoring wildlife shelters and contribute to CO2 sequestration through new tree plantations.

“But we could not have done it if the local communities were not involved,” Khan said. “The local communities first grew the nurseries and then amongst them people who then protected the trees, the saplings when they were planted. It is one of the most successful experiments ever, and we have 85 percent survival rate.”

Experts at World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan, which is monitoring and auditing the tree-planting effort in KPK, say the project has been an environmental, economic and social success, with one of the highest survival rates of trees in the world, ranging from 70 to 90 percent.

“If the trend continues, there will be more birds, there will be more microbes, there will be more insects, so there will be more animals, so more habitats. The ecosystem will kind of literally revive in certain places. There will be more rains because we do need rains,” Hamaad Khan Naqi, WWF-Pakistan’s director general, told VOA.

PTI’s Khan says the provincial government has enforced a complete ban on the cutting and felling of trees in reserved forests across KPK.

Authorities have also curtailed activities of the powerful “timber mafia” by dismantling hundreds of illegal sawmills and arresting timber cutters.

At least two forest guards have been killed in such encounters while many braved injuries, Khan said.

The popularity and recognition of the provincial initiative has encouraged the central government last year to announce its own “Green Pakistan” program, with a goal to plant more than 100 million trees in the next five years.

VOA

what an achievement

Kudos to KPK gov and IK!!! he kept his promise.

@Zibago @django @Hell hound @Moonlight @Arsalan @Imad.Khan

I just hope they just did not planted trees that spread allergies.

And they planted differents sort of trees to respect the diversity of nature.

 

[Unite & Defend]

Love the video and pictures, thanks

 

[Bharat Muslim]

ISLAMABAD —
Pakistan’s northwestern province, Khyber Pakhtunkhaw (KPK), has planted an unprecedented 1 billion trees in just more than two years and surpassed an international commitment of restoring 350,000 hectares of forests and degraded land.

The massive effort aims to turn the tide on land degradation and loss in the mountainous, formerly forested KPK, which lies in the Hindu Kush mountain range.

Imran Khan, head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party governing the province, launched the reforestation campaign, dubbed “Billion Tree Tsunami,” in 2015.

Pictures of a river bank before and after the Billion Tree Tsunami campaign.

Goal reached early

The cricket-star-turned politician revealed to VOA that the goal of adding 1 billion trees by planting and natural regeneration has been achieved this month, well ahead of the original deadline of December 2017.

He says his party plans to organize a special event in Islamabad in late August to celebrate the successful completion of the project, and experts as well as foreign diplomats will be invited.

“We will show them by coordinates, on Google map you can go and see where these trees have been planted, 1 billion trees, this is now the model for the rest of Pakistan,” Khan said.

Punjab, Sindh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, Pakistan

High deforestation rate

Pakistan is seventh on the list of the countries mostly likely to be affected by global warming and has one of the highest deforestation rates in Asia. Decades of tree felling have reduced the country’s forests to less than 3 percent of its land area. About 40 percent of the remaining forests are in KPK.

Khan hopes his reforestation drive will decrease the effects of global warming and natural disasters like floods that cause devastation in KPK and elsewhere in Pakistan every year.

“If you plant trees, we have discovered, by the river banks it sustains the rivers. But most importantly, the glaciers that are melting in the mountains, and one of the biggest reasons is because there has been a massive deforestation. So, this billion tree is very significant for our future,” Khan said.

Bonn Challenge

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in a statement Friday congratulated the Pakistani province on reaching the “momentous milestone.”

“This marks the first Bonn Challenge pledge to reach its restoration goal,” the organization noted.

The Bonn Challenge, set up in 2011, calls for the restoration of 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded lands by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030.

More than 20 countries have so far responded to the challenge, expressing an ambition to restore more than 60 million hectors by 2020 with more commitments expected.

KPK’s reforestation campaign made it the only province or subnational entity to be included in the Bonn Challenge.

“The Billion Tree Tsunami initiative is a true conservation success story, one that further demonstrates Pakistan’s leadership role in the international restoration effort and continued commitment to the Bonn Challenge,” acknowledged Inger Anderson, director general of IUCN.

Nurseries produce 25,000 saplings

Provincial officials say the campaign has achieved its restoration target through a combination of protected natural regeneration, 60 percent, and planned afforestation, 40 percent.

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


The KPK government has invested $123 million to help establish 13,000 private tree nurseries in almost every district of the province, producing hundreds of thousands of saplings of local and imported tree varieties, including pines, walnuts and eucalyptus, officials say.

Local economies benefit

This has boosted local incomes, generated thousands of green jobs, and empowered unemployed youth and women in the province. An additional $100 million will be allocated to maintain the project through June 2020.

“This support makes the project one of the largest eco-investments ever made in Pakistan,” according to the IUCN.

It noted the newly planted trees are reinforcing riverbanks and add tree resources to agricultural lands engaged in farm forestry. They also improve biodiversity by restoring wildlife shelters and contribute to CO2 sequestration through new tree plantations.

“But we could not have done it if the local communities were not involved,” Khan said. “The local communities first grew the nurseries and then amongst them people who then protected the trees, the saplings when they were planted. It is one of the most successful experiments ever, and we have 85 percent survival rate.”

Experts at World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan, which is monitoring and auditing the tree-planting effort in KPK, say the project has been an environmental, economic and social success, with one of the highest survival rates of trees in the world, ranging from 70 to 90 percent.

“If the trend continues, there will be more birds, there will be more microbes, there will be more insects, so there will be more animals, so more habitats. The ecosystem will kind of literally revive in certain places. There will be more rains because we do need rains,” Hamaad Khan Naqi, WWF-Pakistan’s director general, told VOA.

PTI’s Khan says the provincial government has enforced a complete ban on the cutting and felling of trees in reserved forests across KPK.

Authorities have also curtailed activities of the powerful “timber mafia” by dismantling hundreds of illegal sawmills and arresting timber cutters.

At least two forest guards have been killed in such encounters while many braved injuries, Khan said.

The popularity and recognition of the provincial initiative has encouraged the central government last year to announce its own “Green Pakistan” program, with a goal to plant more than 100 million trees in the next five years.

VOA

what an achievement

Kudos to KPK gov and IK!!! he kept his promise.

@Zibago @django @Hell hound @Moonlight @Arsalan @Imad.Khan

What an exaggeration!!!! 1 billion trees in three years? Is it possible?