{"id":17368,"date":"2022-07-13T06:19:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T06:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/planting-trees-and-greening-the-environment"},"modified":"2022-07-13T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T07:41:13","slug":"planting-trees-and-greening-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/planting-trees-and-greening-the-environment","title":{"rendered":"Planting trees and greening the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Planting trees is a very effective way to change the environment and by extension fight the galloping climate change with its prevalence of more extreme situations \u2014 extreme cold or hot weather, lots of rain or draught, etc
\nThere are many initiatives of the Government, the concerned Ministry (Ministry of Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change) and other social groups to plant trees and embellish the environment.
\nThis in some way is transforming the urban and the rural spaces (left abandoned and become eye sore areas) into zones which in time may become a green luxuriant pleasing environment.
\nThis will also help capture carbon, regulate air temperature and support biodiversity and in the long run impact on the climate. (It is a matter of concern that only some 50% of the planted plants survive and grow up simply because of lack of post care.
\nPlants need to be nurtured so that the initiatives do not go awry). Further there is in contrast to the above laudable action: a series of encroachment on roadsides, riverbanks, and other reserves where the trees, ornamental plants have been uprooted for many reasons.<\/p>\n

Even wetlands which are deemed protected areas have not been spared from the assault, there are development\/construction of buildings thereon. Restore, repair, replant but make it green is the cry from the heart.<\/p>\n

Listening to our political masters it appears that we are solving many a problem by \u2018by-passes\u2019. Link roads have become a buzz word. We are piercing through the heart of Nature, through the pastures, natural scenery and surroundings to make roads which may, on second thoughts, not be a real necessity.
\nWe have sufficient road networks for our tiny island, let\u2019s improve the existing ones. Let\u2019s preserve the existing fragments of green spaces and not destroy Nature and the natural habitats: leave something for the future generation to see in terms of green areas in their harmonious natural state.
\nLet\u2019s rearticulate development with emphasis on the need for fairness to Nature and other living entities. Let\u2019s plant and plant so that the country looks like a garden.<\/p>\n

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