Commemorating the Soil Conservation Day 2019, Nepal on August 09, 2019 organized a plantation program at the UNESCO heritage site Pashupathinath.<\/p>\n
The event is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Forest and Environment, Lions Club of Kathmandu, New Waves and the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT).<\/p>\n
As part of the program, participants planted around saplings of over 200 plant species.<\/p>\n
On the occasion, the Minister for Forest and Environment Shakti Bahadur Basnet spoke on the need to safeguard environment from pollution effects and extended the government\u2019s willingness to support PADT activities.<\/p>\n
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He called on all the related stakeholders to engage in a similar mission.<\/p>\n
The program falls under the government\u2019s decision to make this fiscal year as the \u2018Reforestation Year<\/strong>\u2019 and plant 500 million new seedlings across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Commemorating the Soil Conservation Day 2019, Nepal on August 09, 2019 organized a plantation program at…<\/span><\/p>\n