Nigeria Conservation Foundation NCF, partners Unizik to plant ten thousand Economic Trees for the protection and conservation of environmental eco system.
The signing of the MOU took place at the Unizik council chambers, in Awka.
Present at the ceremony included, Dr Joseph Onoja Director General NCF, Professor Phil Eze, Managing Director Anambra Erosion Watershed and Climate Change Agency, ANSEWCCA, Ms Folake Salairo, Director Green Recovery Initiative, Joshua Dazi, Project Officer, Mr Oladapo Soneye Communication Manager.
Commissioner for Culture, Entertainment and Tourism, Comrade Don Onyenji, and Commissioner for Environment Mr Felix Odimegwu were also at the event.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Vice Chancellor Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Professor Charles Esimone said the collaboration with Nigeria Conservation Foundation is in fulfilment of already mapped out policy of the institution on environmental conservation and protection and promised to ensure that the partnership is sustained.
On his part, the DG NCF Dr Joseph Onoja, who said NCF is forty years this year, described the partnership with Unizik as an action parked as the planting of ten thousand economic Trees will help develop and conserve the Unizik environment.
He posited that the Nigeria Forest have been bedeviled by deforestation hence the need to engage in massive tree planting to promote forest reserve.
Also speaking, the Commissioner for Culture, Entertainment and Tourism Comrade Don Onyenji, said protecting the environment is among the mandate giving to the Ministry by Governor Soludo, to transform most environment into tourist sites, adding that gully erosion sites, bushes which has lots of contribution to human life, can be transformed into tourist sites to generate revenue for the state.
The Anambra Commissioner for Environment Mr Odumegwu on his part said such partnership is in line with the mind of Governor Soludo whose one of the major five pillars is to develop the environment to build a green and clean Anambra State, having flagged off tree planting with one household one or two trees a year.
Also speaking, the Managing Director Anambra Erosion Watershed and Climate Change Agency. ANSEWCCA,Professor Phil Eze, applauded the partnership and was optimistic that with future collaboration with the agency, Anambra environment will be conserved.
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