By Mubarak Yaqub | Program Manager
Trees & Forests in danger due to floods in Pakistan
Pakistan is a agricultural country depends 70% on agriculture sector, trees are the main source of wood and fuel as well as main source of lumber, paper, fuel wood, latex, medicine as well as food and provide ecotourism and wildlife conservation purposes. Less than 4% of land in Pakistan is covered with forests.
Cutting of tree and forests decreasing rapidly as floods, cyclone and heavy rains hit different parts of the country and large scale lands barren due to water shortage and floods situation since consecutive last 4 years 2010, 2011, 2012 & now 2014. The Pakistan forests decreased up to 4% only.
Pakistan needs to plant trees and forests in the areas flood or tree cutting due to water shortage
AHD confident to plant tree and increase in awareness in tree plantation in 2014, to support AHD tree plantation campaign support our this project to plant more trees
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