Delta Govt. moves to protect forest reserves’ from extinction
The Delta State government has taken steps to protect forest reserves’ extinction, warning that illegal activities in the government reserved areas would be religiously monitored.
The state Commissioner of Environment John Nani who made this known Thursday in Asaba, also said that the state is alarmed with the rate at which economic trees are coming under threats due to illegal activities of tree fellers, poachers arsonists and others.
To avert the impending doom, threatening to drown the state’s tourist sector of the economy, the state government disclosed that the State Ministry of Environment, came out with the sustainable and proactive measures to checkmate the activities of poachers,
illegal logging and the devastating impacts of environmental related disasters across the state by procuring state-of-art-digital equipment which includes the drone.
Mr. Nani, who bared his mind Thursday in Asaba, during the ministry’s one-day capacity building workshop, captioned “improver service delivery for sustainable development,” tongue flayed the Delta State University, Anwai Campus, Asaba, for allegedly contributing to the state’s environmental plight, through its infamous role in the deforestation practice.
The Commissioner expressed vexation on the illegal falling of trees in the State University, Anwai Campus, forest reserve along the Asaba/Ebu/Abuja Federal Road, in an institution, with a Department of Forestry, which preachers against forest violation, but unfortunately involved itself in the act, which goes contrary to its teaching.
He called on the institution to introduce forestation policy for the replacement of the fallen trees in the Campus’ forest reserve in line with the current war against global warning.
He called for Deltans to embrace the culture of tree planting adding that God ‘will not be pleased with any human being who has not planted a single tree in his life time, asserting that, “anyone who refuses to plant a tree in his life time has committed since against God.”
Nani therefore challenged Deltas to plant trees to assist in global warming mitigations and for socio-economic grow and development (by planting economic trees).
He then assured them of the state government readiness to provide land for interesting ones to farm on, while the government will provide seedling (trees) to plant on the allocation land, “after harvesting your crops, the trees will develop into forest reserve.”
Nosa Akenzua, Asaba
