Plant trees and save lives. Many trees are destroyed so that the places are used for agricultural purposes and for dams, roads, and woods to build houses.
Green is safe: Deforestation is causing many environmental issues like loss of habitat for wild animals and indigenous people, flood, soil erosion, imbalance in the temperature, no pollution checks, increase in the level of carbon dioxide leading to hole in the ozone layer. Natural medicines from trees and plants are also lost in this scenario.
According to Damian Carrington, an Environment editor: Planting billions of trees worldwide is one of the biggest and cheapest ways of taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis. New research estimates that a worldwide planting program could solve the problem of pollutions resulting from human activities. The Green analysis found 1.7bn hectares of treeless land on which 1.2tn native tree saplings would naturally grow.
Campaigners say that allow nature to heal climate and biodiversity crises. Prof Tom Crowther at the Swiss University ETH Zurich emphasized that it is vital to reverse the current trends of rising greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation and bring them down to zero. He said this is needed to stop the climate crisis from worsening. Green added that individuals could make a tangible impact by growing trees themselves, donating to forest restoration organizations, and avoiding irresponsible companies.
Jean Francois Bastin, also at ETH Zurich, said the action was immediately required: “Governments must now factor [tree restoration] into their national strategies. The tree planting initiatives already exist, including the Bonn Challenge, Green backed by 48 nations, to restore 350m hectares of forest by 2030. But the study shows that many of these countries have committed to restoring less than half the area that could support new forests. “This is a new opportunity for those countries to get it right,” said Crowther.
On July 31st, 2016, Prime Minister Modi emphasized the importance of trees on a program broadcast on the government’s All India Radio. He talked about how traditional scriptures such as Gita, Shukracharya Niti, and Anushasan Parv of the Mahabharata highlight forest values. PM asked farmers to plant timber trees instead of wasting land in building fences to solve land issues.
From 2009 to 2013, Green Forest Minister Mian Altaf Ahmad reported that India had imported 14.7 million cubic feet of timber from abroad and from other parts of the country. PM Modi said that planting trees in India has become a new source of income for India’s citizens, but it can save India from deforestation and timber importation costs. It is essential to keep a check on deforestation. PM asserts that if Indians plant more trees, they can utilize them to construct homes and furniture in the future.
Furthermore, saplings can be used or sold to other countries with the government’s permission when they reach maturity. According to The Green Huffington Post, in Uttar Pradesh, more than eight hundred thousand students, volunteers, and government officials planted over fifty million saplings in twenty-four hours. The Maharashtra government planted almost 20,000,000 saplings in the entire state and will pledge to plant another 30,000,000 next year.
According to The Telegraph, The Green Indian government has attributed $6.2 billion for tree planting to increase forest in line with agreements made at the Paris climate change summit in 2015. The Indian government has also passed the CAMPA law, which will allow about 40 thousand crores rupees to Indian states for planting trees. The tree-planting project could raise people’s awareness of many more significant Indian issues such as pollution, deforestation, and land use.
This news was curated by Prittle Prattle News with the help of information provided by PTI.
