Move to Save Coastal Belt
2 lakh saplings planted in one hour
Around seven thousand families of the coastal areas from Teknaf to Mirsarai of the greater Chittagong yesterday took part in one-hour long tree plantation programme and planted about two lakh saplings to save the embankment and coastal belt.
State Minister for Environment and Forests Dr Hasan Mahmud and former adviser to a caretaker government Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman inaugurated the event planting samplings.
Bangladesh Poribesh Forum (BPF), Chittagong chapter in association with the local government representatives arranged the tree plantation programme under the project 'Coastal Tree Plantation-2011' with a view to protecting the life, biodiversity and the embankment and to create mass awareness on global warming and climate change.
Dr Hasan Mahmud said through the event consciousness will be created about climate change among the people of the country.
Saplings of various species including fruits, woods and medicinal were planted around 200 miles of the most vulnerable coastal embankment, where 79 union parishad chairmen, 8 ward councilors, 711 word members from Teknaf, Ukhia, Pekua, Chakaria, Kutubdia, Banskhali, Anwara, Sitakunda, Mirsarai and other coastal areas took part at the tree plantation programme.
Chittagong City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Manjur Alam, lawmaker Abul Kasem, The Daily Star Bureau Chief AKM Raisul Huq Bahar, Cox's Bazar Deputy Commissioner Joynul Bari, Prof Idris Ali, RSRM Chairman M Rahman, CUET syndicate member Engr Ali Asraf, BPF President Prof Mojammel Haque, Human Rights Bangladesh Chairman Masuda Bilkis, BATC Human Resource Director Sayad Imtiaz Faruque, Channel-i Bureau Chief Chowdhury Farid, BPF General Secretary Aliur Rahman planted saplings at the event.
The organisers of the event expected the event will be recorded in Guinness Book of World Record as the event broke two records of the most trees planted simultaneously and most trees planted in one hour.
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