The Brong Ahafo Regional Chapter of the Non-Formal Education Division(NFED) has planted 2, 512 trees in five Senior High Schools in the Bono East region as part of the Green Ghana project introduced by the Forestry Commission.
The schools included; Kwarteng Ankomah Senior High School, Techiman Senior High School, Mount Carmel Girls Senior High School, Tuobodom Senior High School and Buoyam Senior High School.
Speaking in an interview on Sunyani based Ark FM, the Regional Director of the NFED, Mr. Nicholas Ameyaw, indicated that even before the Commission initiated the Green Ghana Project, his outfit had introduced tree planting in 2018 when he assumed office.
He said the head office had instructed all regional offices to get involved in the tree planting project but his outfit decided to start four weeks ago.
Mr. Ameyaw added that his outfit will also plant about 5000 trees in the various districts in the region as part of development activities undertaken by the division. He called on all Ghanaians to support the project to protect the environment.
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, recently launched the Green Ghana Programme, as part of activities to mark this year’s International Day of Forest.
Under the Green Ghana initiative, which will take place on June 11, 2021 a total of five million trees are expected to be planted in a single day across Ghana.
It will form part of an effort to encourage Ghanaians to plant more trees to preserve and protect Ghana’s forest cover and the environment.
Collective responsibility
Mr Jinapor said the tree planting exercise will see President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia; the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin and the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah planting a tree each on June 11.
He also mentioned other high-profile personalities who will take part in the exercise as the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the Overlord of Dagbon, Yaa-Naa Abukari II, as well as other Ghanaians all over the country.
Mr Jinapor said the rationale to plant five million trees in Ghana forms part of a strategy and a programme to embark on an aggressive afforestation to protect forests and the environment in Ghana.
He said the initiative is a joint responsibility for which more broad-based support is needed to address the adverse degradation of Ghana’s forests and ecosystem
“To achieve our goal of protecting our forests and ecosystem, we will see to the planting of five million trees, which is significant by all standards, to help raise national consciousness of the need to protect the environment and the forests,” he said.
According to him, the President has a vision for the Forestry Commission and the forestry sector which required that FC worked with all stakeholders to increase the country’s forest cover and ensure the protection of the environment.
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