Soot: NAWOJ Calls For Tree Planting

The Chairperson of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Rivers State, Susan Serekara Nwikhana, has said that tree is life and it also beautifies the state and environment at large.
Mrs Serekara-Nwikhana dropped the hint as Journalists for Sustainable Development in Nigeria (JSDN) flagged off the 2021 Tree planting campaign exercise yesterday. Appreciating the convener of the programme, she enjoined all to invest in tree preservation as a way of giving life to our environment.
Speaking on the theme of this year’s program; “Tree Planting Awareness Campaign: Combating Climate Change Through Sustainable Tree Planting Exercise, the chairman of the organising committee and Executive Director of JSDN, Parry Benson, said there are many infrastructure without tree that the campaign exercise will help to reduce and intercept the particles in the air.
He used the opportunity to appeal to state governments and well meaning individuals to pursue the exercise of tree planting and while urging government to set up task force or agencies that would be responsible for prohibition of falling of trees, as well as prosecute anyone found guilty of cutting down tree without replacement. He also appealed to those who fall trees in the name of harvest without replacement to stop.
Meanwhile, the Deputy National President, NAWOJ, Lilian Okonkwo- Ogabu, also used the occasion to urged JSDN to maintain the trees after planting, while calling on journalists who are concerned about their environment to be tensional about it, and not a mere ceremony that will come and go.
Highlight of the event is the planting of trees by the chairman of the organizing committee and executive director of JSDN Nawoj chairperson, Deputy National President of NAWOJ and other invited guests.