Plant for Pakistan
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Plant for Pakistan (Plant4Pakistan), also known as 10 Billion Tree Tsunami, is a five-year project to plant 10 billion trees across Pakistan from 2018 to 2023.[1] Prime Minister Imran Khan started the drive on 2 September 2018 with approximately 1.5 million trees planted on the first day.[2] The campaign was based on the successful Billion Tree Tsunami campaign of the former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government, also led by Imran Khan, in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2014.[3] This different initiative is often confused with the initiative of the Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif who launched a national campaign of Green Pakistan and also allocated budget funding from the PSDP.
In 2020, the program tripled its number of workers to 63,600 after being momentarily halted following the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, aiming to enlist those left unemployed by its economic consequences.[4] Most of the work, which pays between 500 and 800 rupees (US$3–5) a day, takes place in rural areas, with people setting up nurseries, planting saplings, and serving as forest protection guards. The plan was awarded 7.5 billion rupees ($46m) in funding.[5] Saplings planted during the initiative included mulberry, acacia, moringa and other indigenous species.
Planting Billions of Trees
While Pakistan's
Pakistan has a wide variety of
The PTI-led government, under its political campaign on Green Agenda, have introduced projects like Billion Tree Tsunami and Ten Billion Tree Tsunami to tackle and raise awareness about forestry and afforestation across the country in response.
International Acceptance
The Billion Tree Tsunami, or the planting of one billion trees, was started by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in 2014. One billion trees were planted on 35,000 hectares of forest and barren land.
Regional 'Billion Tree Tsunami' project, which started seven years ago in 2014, started a revolution with great silence. The 'Billion Tree Tsunami' soon reverberated not only across the country but also globally, thanks to its performance in environmental organizations such as the
The 'Safe Areas' system
Apart from tree planting, the government of Pakistan have also taken other eco-friendly measures, including increasing the number of protected areas; as of December 2022, there are currently 398 wildlife conservation areas in Pakistan. Of these, 31 have national park status. The total protected land area represents 13% of Pakistan's landmass as of 2020, with the government of Pakistan announcing plans to increase this amount to 15% by 2023.
A National Park Academy has been planned for Ziarat and Balochistan national parks, where young people will be given jobs after special training, with plans to give least 5,000 young people employment.[13]
Other Green Projects
Green energy
The government has immediately abandoned 2600 MW coal burning projects and focused on new 3700 MW
Electric Vehicles
Another eco-friendly project of this government is the promotion of
Green diplomacy
These trees have opened many closed doors and played the role of green diplomat. "Recently, our relations with
See also
- Billion Tree Tsunami, a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan reforestation project
- UNEPcall to plant 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000 or 10,00,00,00,00,000) trees.
References
- ^ Gul, Ayaz. "Pakistan to Plant '10 Billion Trees'". VOA. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ "'Plant for Pakistan' campaign kicks off across the country | The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 1 September 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ "Pakistan has planted over a billion trees". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ "Pakistan Hires Thousands of Newly-Unemployed Laborers for Ambitious 10 Billion Tree-Planting Initiative". Good News Network. thegoodnewsnetwork. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
- ^ "Pakistan's virus-idled workers hired to plant trees". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 30 April 2020..
- ^ Eckstein, David, et al. "Global climate risk index 2020." (PDF) Germanwatch (2019).
- ^ "Lahore Air Quality Index (AQI) and Pakistan Air Pollution | AirVisual".
- ^ "Pakistan: 'Find a solution,' say Lahore residents choking in smog". www.aljazeera.com.
- ^ "Hazy Lahore declared most polluted city in the world". 2 November 2021.
- ^ Haider, Kamran; Anis, Khurrum (24 June 2015). "Heat Wave Death Toll Rises to 2,000 in Pakistan's Financial Hub". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ Kamal, Shahid (2 April 2018). "Quality of air in Islamabad declining". Dawn. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
With 7,253 known glaciers, including 543 in the Chitral Valley, there is more glacial ice in Pakistan than anywhere on Earth outside the polar regions, according to various studies.
- ^ "ماحولیات کا عالمی دن: وزیراعظم عمران خان کا '10 بلین ٹری سونامی منصوبہ، پاکستان کے ماحول دوست اقدامات کا عالمی سطح پر اعتراف". BBC Urdu. 3 June 2021.
- ^ "ماحولیاتی سمٹ: امریکی صدر جو بائیڈن کی 40 عالمی رہنماؤں کو شرکت کی دعوت، پاکستان کا نام شامل نہیں". BBC Urdu. 27 March 2021.