Princess Masiiwa
Fauna and Flora Zimbabwe has taken up the initiative to ensure Gutu community joins the climate change and mitigation bandwagon by carrying out awareness campaigns and educating the community on the importance of conserving animals and trees.
Commemorating the belated National Tree Planting Day on January 4, 2022 at Jerenje village in ward 3 of Gutu North constituency, FaFlo Zim director Fidelicy Nyamukondiwa said their organisation has embarked on the noble initiative to conscentise the community on importance of Flora and Fauna.
“We taught people about climate change, importance of trees on the environment, the importance of wildlife and we also educated them on specially protected animal species,” he said.
He also said to tackle the issue of climate change this year; they are going to have awareness campaigns, education and training programmes on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
“We are going to do massive public awareness campaigns, education and training programmes on climate change mitigation and adaptation in order to resolve climate change this year,” he added.
Nyamukondiwa said they are going to partner key stakeholders on climate change management.
“We are also going to partner key stakeholders on climate change management,” he said.
He said they donated seeds of cabbage, rape, cucumber, onion butternut, carrot and tomatoes to a garden in Jerenje village in ward 3.
“We donated Cabbage, Rape, Cucumber, Onion, Butternut, Carrot and Tomato seeds to a garden that is in Jerenje Village in Ward 3 as well close to the tree planting site,” said Nyamukondiwa.
Deputy Minister of Housing and Social Amenities and Member of Parliament for Gutu North Constituency, Yeukai Simbanegavi said it is important to plant trees because people get money out selling fruits from trees they would have planted.
“It is very important to plant trees because if people sell fruits that they get from these trees, they get money to help them in their day to day lives,” said Simbanegavi.
She also said in order to tackle climate change and its effects; they encouraged members of the public not to cut trees as deforestation will lead to climate change and flooding.
“We encourage members of the public not to cut down trees as it can lead to flooding and climate change,” she added.
The national tree planting day set for the first Saturday of December annually on the national calendar is meant to reclaim forests lost due to various human activities like land clearance for farming and demand for wood as fuel among others.
