The Secretary General of the Eastern region, Siaka Ouattara, chaired on Saturday June 22, 2024, the celebration of the 6th edition of Arbor Day in Fada N’Gourma.
It is in a context marked by the security crisis that the 6th edition of National Tree Day with the challenging theme ‘Tree, capital of resilience for endogenous development’ was celebrated on Saturday June 22, 2024, in the eastern region like other localities in the country.
According to the Eastern Regional Director of Environment, Lieutenant-Colonel Romuald Nikiéma, the Eastern region is home to enormous natural protection areas such as national parks (W, Arly), wildlife reserves , communal forests, wildlife, village forests of kinetic interests and sacred woods.
Unfortunately, noted the regional director, these natural potentials are experiencing accelerated degradation mainly due to the harmful actions of man, climate change and the security situation.
The region’s secretary general, Siaka Ouattara, maintained that every year Burkina Faso lo
ses more than 83,000 hectares of trees and forests.
To reverse this trend of degradation and ensure sustainable management of forest resources, the Burkinabe government established National Tree Day so that accountability and a more ecological and eco-citizen commitment can be seen within the entire community. the population, declared the secretary general of the region.
Thus, for this edition it is planned to plant 2,000 trees made up of several species, including 500 on the site of the agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries farm of the TIN-BA association. The remaining plants will be distributed to other associations and individuals to be reforested also on secure sites.
Siaka Ouattara invited people to plant usefully, that is to say, plant on a safe site, plant what can be protected and maintained throughout the campaign.
The evaluation of the 2023 edition shows us a plant survival rate of more than 80%.
Source: Burkina Information Agency