The Central Regional Forestry Commission is calling on churches, schools, private organizations, individuals, and all indigenes of the region to fully participate in this year’s Green Ghana Day which is slated for today, June 9, 2023.
In an interview with ATLFMNEWS, the Central Regional Deputy Manager of the Forestry Commission, Madam Dorothy Damson indicated that the exercise is targeting places like schools, forest areas, along streets, and public places among others.
The Green Ghana Day is a government initiative aimed at afforestation, and restoring Ghana’s degraded landscapes.
The project rallies people across Ghana to plant and nurture tree seedlings to green the country.
This year’s edition of Green Ghana is targeting 10 million seedlings nationwide while the over 30 million trees planted in 2021 and 2022 will continue to be nurtured together with the conclusion of this year’s edition of Green Ghana.
As such Madam Dorothy Damson is therefore urging all inhabitants of the Central Region to involve themselves to make the exercise fruitful.
She emphasized that individuals who involve themselves stand to benefit from it themselves.
“We are here on this earth. The climate is still with us. If you plant it in large quantities the benefit goes to you, the one who planted them. If it matures and you want to use it, all that you have to do is to come to us. We already have your details because in the inception you came to us, so we know you have planted so, so and so. Invariably the trees and everything belong to you. If you decide to sell it, the money belongs to you.”
To this end, she advised individuals with idle lands without any developments to be done on it for the next 5 to 10 years to avail their lands to plant on it themselves and reap the benefits thereof.
Speaking on this year’s theme: Green Ghana Day is Our Forest, Our Health, Madam Damson intimated that, as health depends on the forest, individuals involving themselves in the yearly Green Ghana Day will safeguard farms, and help reap the food, medicines, and oxygen among others needed to survive.
As part of the plans of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof Johnson Nyarku Boampong to improve the greening in the university, he has liaised with the Forestry Commission for the planting of 50,000 seedlings.
The exercise which commenced today at exactly 8 am is in commemoration of the Green Ghana Day.
He is urging all students, staff, and the entire university community to participate fully in the exercise.
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Source: Eric Sekyi/ATLFMNEWS
