Stakeholders urged to ensure planted trees survive
Environmental stakeholders in Tanzania have urged communities and schools to ensure that newly planted trees receive proper care so they survive to maturity. Speaking at a tree-planting event in Kilimanjaro, officials emphasized the critical role trees play in water conservation, soil protection, and climate change mitigation.
Why it matters
Emphasizes that long-term environmental sustainability requires active post-planting maintenance rather than just initial planting campaigns.
KILIMANJARO: ENVIRONMENTAL stakeholders have been urged to ensure that planted trees survive and mature to strengthen environmental conservation and help address climate change.
The call was made on Monday by a Goodwill Environmental Ambassador from the Vice-President’s Office, Nestory Mushi, during the October Members’ Birthday Tree Planting event held at Kilimanjaro Girls Secondary School in Siha District, Kilimanjaro Region.
The annual initiative brings together people born in October and other environmental conservation stakeholders to plant trees and promote sustainable environmental protection.
Mr Mushi, who is also the founder and director of the Kilimanjaro Environmental Preservation (KEP) institution, said tree planting alone was not enough unless the trees received proper care and survived to maturity.
He said healthy trees and forests played a vital role in protecting water sources, preventing soil erosion, supporting wildlife and strengthening local communities.
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