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Environment
Mark World Environment Day by Planing Trees
Posted: Thursday June 04, 2009 5:19 AM BT
NEXT Friday, Tanzanians in their millions will join the rest of the world to mark the World Environment Day, whose theme is 'Your Planet Needs You: Unite to Combat Climate Change'.
The day is expected to give a human face to environment issues and empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development.
It is also intended to promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing environmental issues. Supporting the Minister of State in the Vice-President's Office, we expect all public leaders at all levels in Tanzania to encourage members of the communities to plant trees and stop cutting and burning trees. And in places where sewage systems exist, they should be cleaned. This activity should not only be limited to the World Environment Day. It should be part of our daily life. In many parts of Tanzania the majority of people tend to think that the tree cover is not important in their lives. Many of them do this because of sheer ignorance that once the tree cover is gone the climate inevitably changes, the amount of rainfall falls. Subsequently, food security is uncertain. We support the government that once we stop cutting and burning trees we will be sure of a safer and more prosperous future essential for our development. At present, the northern parts of our country has experienced a scarcity of rain, making many people in those part fear that the probability of a severe shortage of food is certain. The day's theme also reflects the urgency for nations, including Tanzania, to agree on a new deal to overcome poverty and improve the management of forests, for the forests are crucial in the development of the human race. It is our call that where rains still fall trees should be planted in big numbers as President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete once said. This is possible if every Tanzanian plants a tree or two a year and takes care of those already planted. Once we do that this will certainly be a preventive measure against unnecessary shortage of the life-giving tree cover that also assures us of medicinal herbs and plants. |
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