Mushahidullah for creating awareness on deforestation

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan on Thursday urged for creating awareness among masses about disadvantages of deforestation.

Chairing a meeting on spring plantation campaign 2018, the minister said that every province should start such campaigns and encourage citizens to plant more trees.

He asked the representative of National Highway Authority to contact provincial forest departments for forestation on roads passing through all four provinces.

He said that the ministry has set the targets for spring plantation as Punjab Forest Department has been given target of planting 12 million saplings, Sindh Forest Department 12 million, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 52 million, Azad Jammu and Kashmir 9.8 million, Gilgit Baltistan three million, Federally Administered Areas Forest Department, 5.236 million, International Union of Conservation of Nature 0.5 million, Pakistan Ordnance Factories 0.004 million, Ministry of Defense one million, National Highway Authority one million, ENGRO four million and Pakistan Aeronautical Complex 0.015 million.