CHITRAL: Chitral Gol National Park has international importance as Pakistan’s national animal Markhor, national tree deodar, national flower jasmine and national bird Chakor are found here in abundance.
According to Mohammad Altaf Ali Shah, Divisional Forest Officer Wildlife Chitral Gol National Park, the core zone of this park covers an area of 7,750 hectares while the buffer zone, which was added later, covers 50,000 hectares.
Conservator Shaukat Fayaz of Malakand Forest Division supervised a plantation drive in the park. According to him, the forest guards of the forest department and the volunteers of Al-Khidmat Foundation are also participating in the campaign.
Talking to this scribe, Conservator Shaukat Fayyaz said that the tree works with us from birth to death, so we should plant as many trees as possible. In response to a question, he said that there is a lot of burden on the forests of Chitral, especially in winter season, most of the people burn oak trees as firewood. 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.
In this campaign, 3,000 Deodar saplings were planted at the scenic place of Chitral goal National park. It is hoped that when these saplings grow up and become trees, a dense forest will be seen here, at present this was look a bad seen like a desert. The beauty of the forest will increase while the greatest benefit will be to the wildlife because the denser the forest, make happier the wildlife is.
Officers of the forest department also 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. According to experts, the higher rate of afforestation will have a positive impact on climate change and also protect us from more damages in the form of natural disasters.
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