Mr Muhammad Dakpanchi, Founder Sustainable Environment Vanguard, an advocacy group on community tree planting for greener and sustainable environment, has donated over 20 seedlings in Minna, Niger State.
Dapkanchi on Tuesday in an interview in Abuja said that the seedlings when nurtured would reduce deforestation and effects of climate change.
He regretted that people keep engaging in activities that encourage deforestation without thinking of how negatively it was affecting them.
Contributing his quota towards planting of seedlings as a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, in 2017 in Jigawa State, Dakpanchi said he needed to replicate such in his environment.
“During my NYSC, I was privileged to be in the Environmental and Sanitation Group when serving in Jigawa and during that time, I headed a project called Plant a Tree (PAT).
“After my service year, I felt I can do more in my own state and since then I have been engaging with a number of community and religious leaders, youth groups especially in Niger state.
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“For this year, I have donated over 20 seedlings to individuals, communities on self-sponsorship.
“In areas like Lagun, Mokwa and other areas, there is the indiscriminate habit of cutting down trees leading to a serious deforestation in those areas,’’ he said.
He, however, said he had printed stickers for commercial vehicles, houses and creating the awareness on the need to stop the indiscriminate felling of trees.
According to him, if I can access more funds, it will enable me to do more because most times when I donate seedlings for planting, the community or individuals want you to pay to nurture them.
“People will keep asking if I have money to pay them but I have devised a means of looking out for passionate people to look after the seedlings for nurturing anywhere I donated.
“If I have the fund, I will provide the seedling and the protection as well, because it is about protection, nurturing the trees to grow,’’ he said.
