2024 Green Ghana Day launched - 10 million trees to be planted

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has launched this year’s Green Ghana Day project with a call on the citizenry to come together to plant and grow at least 10 million trees for a greener tomorrow for the survival of generations unborn.

Mr Jinapor made the appeal when he jointly launched this year’s edition of the Green Ghana Day with the Overlord of Dagbon, Ya-Na Abukari II, in Tamale yesterday. The minister indicated that about 42 million trees had been planted across the country in the last three years, consistently exceeding the targets for each year.

The Green Ghana Project is one of the measures the government of Ghana, under the able and outstanding leadership of President Akufo-Addo, has adopted to curb the incessant degradation of our forests, which has been ongoing for years without any conscious effort to replace them, and to contribute to the global fight against climate change,” he stressed.

In a speech read on his behalf by the Chief of Zangbalan, Naa Dr Jacob Mahama, the Ya-Na lauded the government for initiating the Green Ghana project, and said it had gone a long way to restore most degraded lands in the area.

“The Green Ghana Project is a game-changer; let’s own the project as chiefs to complement the government’s effort to restore all degraded lands and protect the natural resources for our own good,” he said.

This year’s edition of the Green Ghana project is on the theme, “Growing for a Greener Tomorrow”. The project is targeting to plant 10 million tree seedlings across the country, out of which six million seedlings would be planted in degraded forest reserves, while four million seedlings would be planted within and around farms, degraded watershed areas, and within communities, medians of roads, among others.

The Green Ghana was first held on June 11, 2021, with a post-planting monitoring survey putting the average tree survival rate at 71 per cent or 23 million trees planted during the 2021 and 2022 editions.