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Govt committed to bring forest cover to 12%
March 21, 2018

The government has set the target to increase forest cover of the country from the existing 5.01 percent to 12 percent.

An official of Ministry of Climate Change told APP that it aims at effectively tackling the confronted challenges of global warming and environmental related issues.

He said the ministry so far has planted as many as 18 million saplings across the country under the Green Pakistan Program.

The Green Pakistan Program was launched last year in February to plant 100 million samplings across the country with the cost of 4.7 billion rupees in the five years.

Under the United Nations charter, there must be 12 percent forest cover of the total area of the country.

Sharing figure of sapling plantation during 2011 to 2016, the official of Ministry of Climate Change said about 707 million saplings had been planted in four provinces including Azad Jammu Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Federally Administered Tribal Areas.