Forest Department of South Punjab starts spring plantation campaign.

The Forest Department of South Punjab has formally started the spring plantation campaign. The target of planting 83 lakh 30 thousand saplings has been set for this campaign. The Additional Chief Secretary South Punjab Capt. (Retd) Saqib Zafar has inaugurated the plantation campaign of the Department of Forests by planting a mango sapling in Kotla Sadat area of ??Muzaffargarh. Secretary Forests, Wildlife and Fisheries Sarfaraz Khan Magsi and Deputy Commissioner Muzaffargarh Agha Zaheer Abbas Shirazi, Chief Conservator Forest South Punjab Javed Gill, and other officers of the Forest Department were also present on this occasion.

Additional Chief Secretary South Punjab, Capt.(Retd) Saqib Zafar, while addressing the inagural ceremony, said that due to the global warming caused by deforestation, the entire mankind was facing serious threats and Pakistan was under the adverse effects of climate change. He said that according to the global standard, 25 percent of the area of ??any country should be covered by forests, but contrarily only 5 percent of the area of ??Pakistan is covered by forests, while in our neighborhood, 60 percent of the area in Bhutan and 33 percent of the area in India are covered by forests. Capt. (Retd)Saqib Zafar said forests have a...

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