Hargeisa celebrates tree planting day
Mustafe
Sulub Muhumed
The
international day marked for trees was celebrated at Beerta
Horriyada in the capital Hargeisa.
The
celebration was attended ministers, MPs, city council vice
Chairperson, chairperson of national disasters protection agency,
Oxfam, FOA, local agencies and public figures.
The minister
of the government palace said that the trees are essential for the
life of the human and the environment.
“During the
last 20 years, the trees are being cut further in every place in the
whole country.
If you walk
at the centers of the urban towns you see evidence of charcoal
which is burned from trees.” he said.
He further
said, “If burning trees continues, it will cause more deforestation.
Burning trees
causes not only deforestation but soil
erosion. This
day is not only important for not causing deforestation but
for every citizen to keep in mind to save and plant a tree as
a
protection
from these environmental problems.”
Nerad,
national agency of disaster protection chairperson and expert,
Mohamed Musse
said,
“Forests were 90 percent of the world a long time ago. Brazil
was the greenest land in the world, but at this time 30 percent
of the trees have been cut down."
The expert
also pointed that Ethiopia had 60 percent and now 10 percent
remains.
“We get from
the trees the oxygen for living and the trees get carbon dioxide
from the human.”
All
participants called upon the community to help conserve the
environment.
