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Chitral, Oct 02 (APP):Almost 3000 Deodar sapling were planted on Monday at Goal National Park during monsoon drive in Chitral.
According to details, Divisional Forest Officers, Wildlife Chitral, Goal National Park Altaf Ali Shah said that monsoon season was starting and keeping in mind the importance of forests, plantation campaign has been started by planting 3000 Deodar sapling in the National Park.
Talking about the importance of the Chitral Goal National Park, he said that this park having international importance because Pakistan’s national animal Markhor lives here in large numbers, besides national tree Deodar and national flower Chanbeli and national bird Chakor also live in Park. “This park, apart from Markhor, Himalayan lynx, snow leopard, wolf, jackal, marmot etc is the habitat of wildlife” he added.
On the occasion the conservator Forest Shaukat Fayyaz said that the tree works with us from born to death, so we should plant as many trees as possible.
In response to a question, he said that there was a lot of burden on the forests of Chitral; especially in winter season most of the people burn forest as fire wood to protect themselves from the cold, due to which the rate of forests was decreasing.
The only solution is to save forest is to provide cheap electricity or gas to the people of Chitral so that they can use electric or gas heaters instead for cooking and heating purposes instead of burning firewood.
Besides that the officers of the forest department urged the nation to actively participate with them in this good cause and every Pakistani must plant at least one tree so that the shortage of forests in the country can be controlled.
Divisional Forest Officer Asif Ali Shah, Sub-Divisional Forest Officer Chitral Yusuf Farhad, Sub-Divisional Forest Officer Drosh Umarir Nawaz, Divisional Forest Officer Wildlife Chitral Goal National Park Mohammad Altaf Ali Shah, Block Officer Aziz Wali and other officials also participated in the plantation campaign.