{"id":28639,"date":"2018-10-24T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28639"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:36:17","slug":"pakistans-arid-land-transforms-into-green-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pakistans-arid-land-transforms-into-green-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s arid land transforms into green gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-international\/pakistans-arid-land-transforms-into-green-gold\/article24266678.ece\">Pakistan\u2019s arid land transforms into green gold<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 transforms arid Pakistan region into green gold.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"638\"><strong><u>Billion Tree Tsunami:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0Billion Tree Tsunami\u00a0was launched in 2014, by the government of\u00a0Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KPK), Pakistan, as a response to the challenge of\u00a0 global warming<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Pakistan\u2019s Billion Tree Tsunami restores 350,000 hectares of forests and degraded land to surpass its\u00a0 Bonn Challenge\u00a0commitment.<\/li>\n<li>The project aims at improving the ecosystems of classified forests, as well as privately owned waste and farm lands<\/li>\n<li>The project due to be completed in June 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds of millions of trees have been planted to fight deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>3. The \u2018Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 has seen 300 million trees of 42 species planted across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p>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 .<\/p>\n<p>5. These new trees will be helpful in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These trees\u00a0 control soil erosion<\/li>\n<li>Will also help in mitigate climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Decreases chances of floods and increase the chances of precipitation.<\/li>\n<li>Also economic boost for residents.<\/li>\n<li>Can be used as firewood by residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6.. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Swat, many of the high valleys were denuded by the Pakistan Taliban during their reign from 2006 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>7. The Heroshah and Swat plantations are part of the \u201cBillion Tree Tsunami\u201d, a provincial government programme.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s arid land transforms into green gold News: Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 transforms arid Pakistan region into green gold. Billion Tree Tsunami: The\u00a0Billion Tree Tsunami\u00a0was launched in 2014, by the government of\u00a0Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KPK), Pakistan, as a response to the challenge of\u00a0 global warming \u00a0 Pakistan\u2019s Billion Tree Tsunami restores 350,000 hectares of forests and degraded land&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pakistans-arid-land-transforms-into-green-gold\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pakistan\u2019s arid land transforms into green gold<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704912769},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}