Billion Tree Tsunami Over 3 million saplings planted in Gallies

ABBOTTABAD: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has so far planted 3 million saplings in different parts of the forest under the billion tree tsunami campaign.



This was stated by the District Forest Officer Gallies Division Sardar Salim while addressing a ceremony to distribute free saplings among farmers on Tuesday.

Salim added that they had set a plantation target of 3.33 million for the current season in the Gallies Forest division. Of these, he claimed, 3 million saplings had already been planted while the remaining would be planted by the end of this year.



The officer further claimed that he had personally planted around 300,000 saplings.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 1^st, 2017.