Local community engagement, reliable monitoring necessary for 10BTT: Amin Aslam

Local community engagement, reliable monitoring necessary for 10BTT: Amin Aslam

ISLAMABAD, Sep 27 (APP):Adviser to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said success of 10 Billion Tree Tsunami (10BTT) Project is possible through engaging local communities, developing reliable and viable monitoring and reporting mechanisms.

“The strong monitoring of each tree sapling planted under 10BTT anywhere in the country can be easily and anytime verified by even a common person,” he said this during the National Coordination Meeting of the10 Billion Tree Tsunami Programme.

meeting was attended by all provincial forest and wildlife secretaries and representatives of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir here on Friday, a press release said.

The meeting was convened to facilitate transition towards environmentally-resilient Pakistan by mainstreaming notions of adaptation and mitigation through ecologically-targeted initiatives covering afforestation, biodiversity conservation and enabling policy-environmental.

The Adviser said the programme was the flagship project of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government and Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision for environmental conservation and protection in the country.

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