IMPORTANCE OF FORESTS FOR A COUNTRY:

1] Forests provide jobs and incomes

2]Forests host 80% of all terrestrial biodiversity.

3]Forests are vital to our health.

4] Forests give us oxygen.

5]Forests account for 75% of freshwater resources worldwide.

6]Forests regulate precipitation worldwide.

7]Trees and forests are natural cooling systems.

8]Forests slow down global warming.

9]Forests protect us from disasters.

10]Forests and trees grow on more fertile soils.

11]Forests purify soil,water and air.

12]Forests contribute to our well-being.

13]They keep Earth cool.

14]They make it rain.

15]They fight flodding.

16]They keep it forward.

17]They feed us.

18]They heal us.

19]They help us make things.

20]They help us explore and relax.

STEPS PAKISTAN'S GOVERNMENT IS TAKING FOR FORESTS GROWTH:

The climate change ministry has initiated a project at a cost of RS 3.652 billion in all four provinces
through which plantation of 100 million new trees will be ensured until 2021.

The project called 'Revival of Forestry Resources in Pakistan' is initiated under the prime minister's
Green Pakistan Programme.

On the prime minister's direction, a national forest policy has been prepared in consultation with
provinces and stakeholders,which in alia includes broader guidelines for forest protection and to
enhance forest cover.

The policy has been approved in-principle by the Council of Common Interests.

Regarding mechanism devised by the government to ensure proper implementation of said guidelines,
with reference to forests,the sources said biannual inter-ministerial and inter-provincial meeting chalk
out a mechanism for proper implementation of countrywide tree planting campaigns.