Tano South Municipality plants trees

The Tano South Municipal Assembly and the Forestry Commission have urged all to assist in planting trees to sustain the environment.

In line with the Green Ghana initiative, the Assembly, in collaboration with the Forestry Commission, is to plant 50,000 trees in schools, communities, churches, homes, and forest areas in the municipality to complement the government`s five million planting of trees across the country under the theme: “Let’s Go Planting.”

Mrs Josephine Biney, Assistant District Manager for the Forest Service Division, Bechem, said the Green Ghana project was a government initiative to replant trees to replace depleted forests resulting from human activities.

The Forestry Officer remarked that the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area and government officials always worried whenever it rained heavily because properties were destroyed as a result of the storm winds.

Addressing the people at a recent tree planting exercise, the Tano South Municipal Chief Executive, Collins Offinam Takyi, noted that “it is a good initiative to plant trees,” and urged the forestry officer to develop the habit of planting continuously and not only because they were being paid to.

He said the government employed youth in afforestation to plant trees, which are very important for human survival, and advised that the planted trees be protected by continuous maintenance.

According to him, the benefits derived from trees are quite enormous, and cited medicines and clothes as the most common examples.

He called on all state agencies to liaise with each other and non-state agencies to grow woodlots to prevent encroachment on their land, and urge them to water them regularly.

The MP for Tano South, Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere, said the exercise formed part of the government initiative under the Green Ghana Project to help sustain the environment, and reiterated the need for Ghanaians to plant more trees for the survival of future generations.

He said the environment was changing rapidly due to the destruction of forests and water bodies through human activities.

Nana Awuah-Boadi, who represented the Omanhene of Bechem Traditional Council, thanked the government for the good intervention which would go a long way to help the ecosystem, while emphasised the need to restore the ecosystem, and promised to engage the community members and stakeholders to protect the environment, because the country had lost some tree species due to deforestation.

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