Capital citizens plant 10,000 saplings over three years

Plantation was supported by the Devcom-Pakistan in collaboration with the CDA

ISLAMABAD: With more and more awareness being created about the importance of planting trees to mitigate the effects of climate changes citizens in the capital have played more than their due share due role and over the course of three years  more than 10,000 saplings have been planted by both young and senior concerned members of society and concerned common citizens in three years of time on self-help basis.

This was stated by Devcom-Pakistan Director and founder member of the Islamabad Devcom Centennial Leo Club (IDCLC) and Campaign Munir Ahmed.



Speaking to the media, Ahmed pointed out that planting saplings is an easy task which could be done by the local citizens with the help of local authorities and municipalities, city managers, district management, non-governmental organisations, civil society organisations with their own resources.

He said that IDCLC planted hundreds of saplings of local decorative and fruit trees in the Blue Area greenbelt on Monday despite the inclement weather.

The plantation was supported by the Development Communications Network (Devcom-Pakistan) in collaboration with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) Urban Environment Wing-II.

"The objective of the plantation was to engage youth in further strengthening the IDCLC campaign "Grow a plant, Own a tree", founded by well-known environmentalist Munir Ahmed three years back on self-help basis. Young volunteers, university students, children from different schools and common citizens have been part of this ever growing campaign," he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 25^th, 2018.