For Planting Trees: UN-HABITAT to reach 400 villages

UN-HABITAT has launched a tree plantation campaign for the benefit of communities in areas affected by floods.

ISLAMABAD: UN-HABITAT has launched a tree plantation campaign for the benefit of communities in the areas affected by devastating floods during 2010 and 2011. The UN agency aims at planting 200,000 saplings in 400 villages in view of the massive tree cutting in the affected areas for the purpose of reconstruction and rehabilitation. It also aims to reach out to as many as 30,000 families across the country.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 28^th, 2012.