22.36 million saplings on sale: forest department establishes 354 sale points in Punjab

The Punjab Forest Department has established 354 sale points throughout the province with 22.36 million saplings on sale in order to help the general public play its role in making the spring season tree plantation campaign a success. Punjab Minister for Forests, Wildlife and Fisheries Mian Yawar Zaman disclosed this while talking to a group of journalists in his office here on Friday. He also disclosed that the department had also launched a project to set up green pockets in all the districts. Target of sowing 100,000 saplings in all the green pockets has also been set up by the department, he added.
The Minister claimed that all arrangements have been finalized to make the tree plantation a success and surpass the plantation target. He said that the armed forces, rangers, educational institutions and industrial units would also be taken on board to make the campaign successful. Mian Yawar Zaman further said that increasing environment pollution and climate change were posing great threat to human and animal lives and the only way out to avoid this danger is to plant maximum trees. He claimed that increasing area under forest cover in Pakistan is not possible but trees can be planted in educational institutions, homes, factories and office premises to control environment pollution.