The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government announced a billion tree tsunami program a few years ago in a bid to restore the province’s green cover. Not only was this a green project, it was aimed for the restoration of forests in KPK, to increase timber production, create more green jobs and claiming back land.
According to official numbers, 75 percent (or 750 million) trees have been planted or have been restored naturally with the help of the billion tree campaign. The campaign is said to achieve its target by the end of this year.
Given the success of the project at KPK, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has announced an expansion to the campaign as it will be crossing provincial borders and entering Punjab. The political party now plans on increasing plantation in Punjab.
A plantation campaign was initiated by the Insaf Student Federation a couple of weeks ago and now the parent party is lending its hand to support the student federation by launching its own plantation campaign.
The new campaign started on 19th March and will go on until 23rd March. During this time 10,000 trees will be planted in 10 districts of Punjab. The campaign began with Attock, where PTI Chairman, Imran Khan, inaugurated the #BillionTreeTsunami for Punjab.
KPK already boasts 40 percent of the forest area of Pakistan and with this campaign, the plantation campaign has helped alleviate the lead even further. However, now that the campaign has reached Punjab, in the coming future, the citizens of the province can reap the benefits of the campaign as well.
At the end of the day, in the long run, Pakistan will benefit from such green campaigns whether they are from political parties or any other organisation.
You can take a look at the images of the inauguration campaign below:
Just for pictures :( why don’t you show forests where 750 million trees are planted?
Bhai, aap jaa ke dekh aain! Aapki tassalli be hojaye gi.
i go to sawat and sad to see some mountains more then half without tree.
I read some where, that the areas where they are planting these trees are Geo tagged and your can check the location via their website, plus I think they also have a live counter showing how many trees are being planted.
I think it was Reuters where I read but of course it’s better to check in reality cause there’s always a possibility of many of the sources lying or not bothering to check.
Link, source please?
As you mentioned many sources might be lying but what made you so confident that other side is not lying?
Satellite imagery showing status before and after plantation, trees area-wise etc. Info ?
Tsunami is a over used word, tsunami of people, tsunami of change, tsunami of trees…people would like to see what actually is happening…………..TOO MANY WORDS
http://103.240.220.71/btt/
lol ! great……….
I really hope that they achieve the targets and plant a billion trees in real…
How can we volunteer?
Earth is all yours…Plant anywhere you find spare ground :)
Such campaign should be appreciated (no matter who does it ) and advertised a lot in the media to create more Social Awareness on the issue of Deforestation & its effects