Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong has inaugurated the Regional Green Ghana Committee tasked to spearhead the tree planting project which will simultaneously take place across the country on June 11, 2021.
Members of the committee were drawn from the Forestry Commission of Ghana, Environmental Protection Agency, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Environmental Health, NADMO, Department of Parks and Gardens with the Regional Minister as the Chairman
The Deputy Eastern Regional Forestry Manager, Nana Poku Bosompim, said the target of the committee is to plant at least nine hundred thousand (900,000) tree seedlings in all the 33 Municipal and District Assemblies in the Eastern Region.
The species to be planted include Royal Palm, Militia, Cassia, Acacia, Tree of life, Eucalyptus, Mahogany, Neem Red sandalwood among others.
The Regional Minister pledged his total commitment to the success of the program and indicated that his office was ready to offer the needed support to the committee.
He also encouraged the committee to go beyond just planting the trees and nature to address the environmental degradation and mitigate the impact of climate change.
The Green Ghana initiative is a project by the Government of Ghana as part of the broader strategy to recover alarming losses of forest cover and vegetation owing to illegal mining and chainsawing.
The tree planting exercise is scheduled to take place on June 11 this year which Ghanaians would be mobilized to plant trees on the day and nurture them to maturity as a way of contributing to the preservation of the environment.
The exercise would commence with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, and the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin Yeboah, planting trees.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
