Lahore
April 18, 2021
Islamabad : Some 4,250 olive trees planted under Ten Billion Tree Tsunami programme has started bearing fruit indicating this unprecedented initiative is going to improve the economic landscape of the country.
According to the details, the olive trees were planted with the use of an efficient drip irrigation system that greatly helped them attain maturity and bear fruit in a couple of years.
After the passage of the 18th Amendment, the management, planning, execution and implementation of the forest are vested in provincial forest departments, but policy making is a federal responsibility.
Given the economic benefits of the increasing tree cover the federal government has launched highly ambitious tree plantation programmes that would help improve socio-economic conditions of the local people in all the federating units.
World heritage be dammed: as reckless dam nears completion, Tanzania must not be let off the hook - EIA
Rachel Mackenna
Wildlife Campaigner
Natural ‘world heritage’ is defined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as being an area with features of outstanding universal value which, from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty, include the habitat of threatened species of animals and plants.
It’s therefore not surprising that Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve – described by UNESCO as ‘an immense sanctuary’ of more 50,000km
2, constituting one of the largest protected areas in Africa and home to one of the most significant concentrations of elephants, black rhinos, cheetahs, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles and other species – has featured on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1982.
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NationofChange
âConservation is simply not enough anymore. We need restoration.â
“Conservation is simply not enough anymore,” said financier and activist Ben Goldsmith. “We need restoration.”
Just 3% of worldâs ecosystems now remain intact. Conservation is simply not enough anymore. We need restoration. https://t.co/iWcLxAoLWnâ Ben Goldsmith (@BenGoldsmith) April 15, 2021
The authors of the study, published in the journal
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, expressed alarm at their findings, which showed that of the 3% of fully intact land, much lies in northern areas which weren’t rich in biodiversity to begin with, such as boreal forests in Canada or tundra in Greenland.
The Serengeti looks largely like it did hundreds of years ago.
Lions, hyenas and other top predators still stalk herds of wildebeests over a million strong, preventing them from eating too much vegetation. This diversity of trees and grasses support scores of other species, from vivid green-orange Fischer’s lovebirds to dung beetles. In turn, such species carry seeds or pollen across the plains, enabling plant reproduction. Humans are there too, but in relatively low densities. Overall, it’s a prime example of what biologists call an ecologically intact ecosystem: a bustling tangle of complex relationships that together sustain a rich diversity of life, undiminished by us.