By Blessing Odega
The Rotary Alumni Zone 4, in collaboration with Centre for Carbon Literacy and Sustainable Education Initiative (CCLISEI) , has planted 300 tree seedlings at the Police Staff College, Jos.
The Zonal Coordinator, the Rotary Alumni Zone 4, Mr Sunny Dung, on Thursday, said the exercise would help protect and restore nature and biodiversity.
The exercise was to mitigate against the adverse effects of climate change and to serve as wind breakers.
Dung, who was represented by the Assistant Zonal Coordinator, Mr Alex-Sunny Umeh, said that it was imperative to plant trees to serve as mitigants against desertification, greenhouse gases emission that come from various human activities leading to global warming.
“This tree planting exercise asides beautifying the environment, the trees serve as mitigants to factors responsible for climate change and global warming, the trees would also serve as wind breakers to the college and its host community,” he said.
Similarly, Mr Christopher Nwandike, the Secretary, Centre for Carbon Literacy and Sustainable Education Initiative (CCLISEI), reiterated the importance of trees in reducing the effects of climate change.
“Trees are crucial to man and the environment as they serve improve the air quality via absorbing pollutants.
“The trees also help to control the temperature of the environment through a process called transpiration, in which they produce water vapour and they also produce shades this cooling effect lessens the heat of the environment.
“The trees also provide soil stability, their protecting the soil from erosion and landslides and they also help control water cycles by absorbing and holding precipitation and gradually releasing it into the streams and rivers, ” he said.
The Commandant of the college, C.P Njoku Eronini, who was represented by DCP Adetoye Adepegba, commended the alumni for the initiative and assured the association that the trees would be nurtured to maturity.
” This gesture is a great feat for the college and the host community as these trees would serve as wind breakers and would also purify the air in our environment,” he said. NAN