Pakistan’s arid land transforms into green gold

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Pakistan’s arid land transforms into green gold

News:

  1. Billion Tree Tsunami’ transforms arid Pakistan region into green gold.
Billion Tree Tsunami:

  • The Billion Tree Tsunami was launched in 2014, by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KPK), Pakistan, as a response to the challenge of  global warming
  •   Pakistan’s Billion Tree Tsunami restores 350,000 hectares of forests and degraded land to surpass its  Bonn Challenge commitment.
  • The project aims at improving the ecosystems of classified forests, as well as privately owned waste and farm lands
  • The project due to be completed in June 2020.

Important facts:

2. In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds of millions of trees have been planted to fight deforestation.

3. The ‘Billion Tree Tsunami’ has seen 300 million trees of 42 species planted across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

4. In 2015 and 2016, around 16,000 labourers planted more than 9,00,000 fast-growing eucalyptus trees at regular, geometric intervals in Heroshah .

5. These new trees will be helpful in the following ways:

  • These trees  control soil erosion
  • Will also help in mitigate climate change.
  • Decreases chances of floods and increase the chances of precipitation.
  • Also economic boost for residents.
  • Can be used as firewood by residents.

6.. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat, many of the high valleys were denuded by the Pakistan Taliban during their reign from 2006 to 2009.

7. The Heroshah and Swat plantations are part of the “Billion Tree Tsunami”, a provincial government programme.

8. In early 2017, the government announced its own Green Pakistan Project, which aims to plant 100 million trees in five years across the country.

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