{"id":62139,"date":"2020-02-29T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62139"},"modified":"2020-02-28T18:17:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:17:29","slug":"kp-forest-dept-increase-forest-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-forest-dept-increase-forest-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"KP department to work towards increasing forest cover by 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mingora: Officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Forest Department have announced their decision to increase the province\u2019s forest cover from the current 25% to 30% under the federal government\u2019s \u201810 Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 project, a news source reported. Malakand division Chief Conservator Niaz Ali Khan expressed his views on the matter during a visit to the Saidu Medical College in Swat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plantation-drive-kp-plant-3-5-million-saplings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Plantation drive: KP to plant 3.5 million saplings (opens in a new tab)\">Plantation drive: KP to plant 3.5 million saplings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan further stated that the provincial executive had managed to increase its <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"forest cover from 20.3% to 25% (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-forest-cover-increased-by-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">forest cover from 20.3% to 25%<\/a> under the previous \u2018Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 initiative. Now the plans are to increase that cover up to 30% in the next four years, he added. Khan noted that the province\u2019s forest level stood at 45%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pkr-9-bn-allocated-plantation-drive-tribal-districts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PKR 9 bn allocated for plantation drive in tribal districts (opens in a new tab)\">PKR 9 bn allocated for plantation drive in tribal districts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Commissioner Lakki Marwat Abdul Haseeb also spoke on\nthe occasion and said that the local administration would carry out a plantation\ndrive in all parts of the Lakki Marwat district. He added that a drive will be\nlaunched in the district to sensitise people to keep both urban and rural areas\nclean and free from pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mingora: Officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Forest Department have announced their decision to increase the province\u2019s forest cover from the current 25% to 30% under the federal government\u2019s \u201810 Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 project, a news source reported. Malakand division Chief Conservator Niaz Ali Khan expressed his views on the matter during a visit to the Saidu Medical College in Swat. Read: Plantation drive: KP to plant 3.5 million saplings Khan further stated that the provincial executive had managed to increase its forest cover from 20.3% to 25% under the previous \u2018Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 initiative. Now the plans are to increase that cover up to 30% in the next four years, he added. Khan noted that the province\u2019s forest level stood at 45%. Read: PKR 9 bn allocated for plantation drive in tribal districts Deputy Commissioner Lakki Marwat Abdul Haseeb also spoke on the occasion and said that the local administration would carry out a plantation drive in all parts of the Lakki Marwat district. He added that a drive will be launched in the district to sensitise people to keep both urban and rural areas clean and free from pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":60685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[21492],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-kp-department-to-work-towards-increasing-forest-cover-by-5","9":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KP forest department to increase forest covery by 5% - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mingora: Officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Forest Department have announced their decision to increase the province\u2019s forest cover from the current\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-forest-dept-increase-forest-cover.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KP forest department to increase forest covery by 5% - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mingora: Officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Forest Department have announced their decision to increase the province\u2019s forest cover from the current\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-forest-dept-increase-forest-cover.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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