The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) says it planted over 2,000 trees across Lagos State as part of efforts to safeguard the ecosystem in 2023.
Oladapo Soneye, the NCF head of communications made this known while speaking to journalists at the reopening of the Lekki Conservation Centre on Friday in Lagos. Soneye noted that the tree planting was in line with its Green Recovery Nigeria programme.
“Our Green Recovery Nigeria programme is the flagship programme for our tree planting activity, forest restoration and afforestation programme,”he said. “Tree planting falls under this programme and we have been doing this for years. The programme was initiated in 2017.
Speaking further, he said “Last year, we planted over 2,000 trees, so this year, we will plant more, depending on the availability of funds and partnership. “As you know, non-governmental organisations does not have money to execute any project but partners,”.
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Soneye further said that the foundation was ready to plant as many trees as possible if there were partners.
“If we have state government or Federal Government agencies that are ready to give us land and money we are always ready to plant trees,” he said.
On the reopening of the Lekki Conservation Centre, he said that the shutdown was to achieve a greater experience for tourists.
“After festival periods, we shut down for maintenance and checks to be sure the facilities are in good order,”he said. “In the course of our maintenance, we discovered that we need to do some repairs so we extended it.
Story was adapted from theCable.
