Peshawar: Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Pervez Khan Khattak had ordered that all windows, doors and other stuff in all government buildings including schools, hospitals etc should be made from Aluminium steel instead of using wood material.
This step has been taken to secure the forests as due to use of wood is increased the cover areas of forests are becoming less in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Forest pumps out the oxygen we need to live and absorb the carbon dioxide we emit.
The Provincial government announced this decision to Department of Forest, Environment and wildlife Khyber Pakhtunkhwa`s all departments and officers through governmental letter.
[junkie-alert style=”white”] As the forests are the most important part of human life and Pakistan only contain 3% forests. [/junkie-alert]
It’s pertinent to mention here that KPK Government also initiated massive tree plantation campaign in 2015 which is under progress.
On other hand a local ecologist told media that KPK government selected wrong places for Tree plantations