In KPK Pakistan Plants Million Of TreesIn KPK Pakistan Plants Million Of Trees

In KPK Pakistan Plants Million Of Trees

In KPK Pakistan Plants Million Of Trees: Around the region of Heroshah, previously arid hills are now covered with forest as far as the horizon. In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds of millions of trees have been planted to fight deforestation.

In 2015 and 2016 some 16,000 laborers planted more than 900,000 fast-growing eucalyptus trees at regular, geometric intervals in Heroshah and the titanic task is just a fraction of the effort across the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

“Before it was completely burnt land, now they have green gold in their hands,” commented forest manager Pervaiz Manan as he displayed pictures of the site previously, when only sparse blades of tall grass interrupted the monotonous landscape.

In KPK Pakistan Plants Million Of Trees
In KPK Pakistan Plants Million Of Trees

The new trees will reinvigorate the area´s scenic beauty, act as a control against erosion, help mitigate climate change, decrease the chances of floods and increase the chances of precipitation, says Mannan, who oversaw the re-vegetation of Heroshah.

Residents also see them as an economic boost which, officials hope, will deter them from cutting the new growth down to use as firewood in a region where electricity can be sparse.

Further North, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa´s Swat, many of the high valleys were denuded by the Pakistani Taliban during their reign from 2006 to 2009.

In KPK Pakistan Plants Million Of Trees
In KPK Pakistan Plants Million Of Trees

The Heroshah and Swat plantations are part of the “Billion Tree Tsunami”, a provincial government programme that has seen a total of 300 million trees of 42 different species planted across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A further 150 million plants were given to landowners, while strict forest regeneration measures have allowed the regrowth of 730 million trees roughly 1.2 billion new trees in total, the program´s management says.

The program has been praised by the head of the Swiss-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (#IUCN), a green NGO, which called it a “true conservation success story”.

Pakistani authorities say just 5.2% of the country is covered by forest, against the 12% recommended by the United Nations.

More than 60 percent of the forests lining Sindh´s riverbanks have disappeared in the last 60 years, mainly due to river depletion and massive logging during the 1980’s.

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