By Fazal Khaliq
SWAT: SPS students here on Monday vowed to play their role in taking the country out of climate change and global warming threats by planting more and more trees.
They were expressing their views in a plantation campaign at Manyar, organized by SPS college. Students and teachers participated in the campaign by planting saplings.
The students said that trees were indispensable for human beings in many ways, one of them was the provision of oxygen. “Unfortunately, people cut trees frequently and especially the lower Swat is almost treeless which is why the environment has become very dirty here,” said Azizullah Khan a student of grade 12, adding that though their college was closed but they came out for the plantation activity.
The students said that they would play their role in the ten billion tree plantation campaign started by the PM Imran Khan and would prove it to the entire world.
“We are standing with the government and will play active role in making our country clean and green. We will plant trees everywhere to make the billion-tree plantation successful and show it to the world that nothing is impossible,” said Shah Fahad another student who was planting a sapling in the campaign, adding that without trees life is not possible in the world.
The students said that the frequent illegal cutting of trees defaced the scenic beauty of the valley also. “We have to plant more and more trees to restore the natural beauty of the lower Swat because tourists come here to see the beauty,” said.
Khalil Qazi, principal of the college who was supervising the event said that it was the collective responsibility of the society to play role in making the country green and free of environmental hazards.
“We will not only plant trees in different areas but also take care of them so that they can grow properly,” he said, adding that the students would be part of the billion-tree campaign with the government.
