The 2024 Green Ghana Day which is under the theme, ‘Growing for a Greener Tomorrow‘ was commemorated in the Wa East district of the Upper West Region with students, media, EC, GES, security agencies and some staffs at the Wa east district assembly on Friday.
The district has been given a target to ensure the planting of 300,000 seedlings within degraded forest reserves and outside forest reserve.
Free seedlings were distributed at vantage points in the district to interested individuals and institutions for planting to mitigate climate change and also inculcate values of tree planting and nurturing in the youth.
The Assistant Range Supervisor, Ibrahim Abdul Rashid who represented the Wa east district manager, Victor Oduro, forestry commission said the tree planting exercise, which forms part of activities to commemorate this year’s Green Ghana Day aims to protect the environment and complement the Government’s aggressive Afforestation and reforestation programme to restore the country’s vegetation cover.
Abdul Rashid said, sustained efforts at planting trees will contribute significantly to the global attempts to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change.
According to the Assistant Range Supervisor, the trees planted need to be maintained. Adding that the plants must be watered frequently and also weed around them to avoid burning.
The initiative, which was introduced in 2021 by Ghana’s President, His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo, aims at creating enhanced national awareness of the necessity for collective action towards the restoration of degraded landscapes in the country.
The national project is targeted at 10 million trees planted across farm lands, around farm boundaries, degraded watershed areas, road medians, within recreational grounds and parks among others, in order to achieve a greener and more sustainable future.
