Move to Save Coastal Belt
Two lakh saplings planted in one hr
Around 7000 families of the coastal areas from Teknaf to Mirsarai in Chittagong yesterday took part in a one-hour 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.
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 creating mass awareness on global warming and climate change.
Dr Hasan 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 trees were planted around 200 miles of the most vulnerable coastal embankment, where 79 union parishad chairmen, eight ward councillors, 711 word members from Teknaf, Ukhia, Pekua, Chakaria, Kutubdia, Banskhali, Anwara, Sitakunda, Mirsarai and other coastal areas took part in the tree plantation.
Chittagong City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Manjur Alam, lawmaker Abul Kasem, Cox's Bazar Deputy Commissioner Joynul Bari, Prof Idris Ali, RSRM Chairman M Rahman, Human Rights Bangladesh Chairman Masuda Bilkis, BATC Human Resource Director Sayad Imtiaz Faruque, BPF General Secretary Aliur Rahman planted saplings at the event.
The organisers expected the event will be recorded in Guinness Book of World Record as the event broke two records of planting largest number of trees simultaneously and in one hour.
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