'Not only is planting tree seedlings a means for proper nurturing of nature via making barren lands green and producing hypnotic panoramas, but it is also a glorified path to buy up clean air, an incomparable freely given natural premium.'
Plants produce life, and add value to the existing natural phenomenon. If they are planted and carefully nurtured to meaningfully proliferate on whatever place they are rooted, the air is made afresh, the disfigured scene of places is renewed, the feature of river banks is made catchy and all in all the respective environment has been granted with a majestic look and stupendous ecological grace.
Places made in such away are becoming mighty magnets and lucrative hubs to take crunchy air and attention-getting location for perching on.
Apart from the natural destructing factors, the multitude of actions of human beings like deforestation, cutting of trees and plants, haphazardly disposing waste materials, recklessly spoiling water bodies like seas and oceans, are these days exacerbating the negative impacts of global warming, which is clearly manifested in the form of overheating, drought and lack of rainfall and the prevalence of places with no tees, bushes and plenty of grasslands.
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The good thing is, the human race themselves could be the best medication to rescue the earth from untold artificial and natural disasters through widely planting tree seedlings, be they are fruit saplings or mere tree elements accompanying the dense forest. Such a howling step has to be coupled with firm commitment for change, a responsible and forward-looking citizenry who are all the time eager to bring about change and sound progress. The amalgamated effort of leaders and the entire community helps make a difference, in fact.
Keeping all this in mind, Ethiopia and Ethiopians in every corner of the nation have been ready year by year particularly whenever national initiatives and/ campaigns are officially launched and practicality commenced. What happened yesterday was a clear testimony for this fact as people turned out to plant tree seedlings on mountainous areas, relatively destitute localities and those which are susceptible to flush flood and unprecedented dangerous natural periodic event. Obviously, people planted seedlings correcting the shortcomings witnessed during the previous year's planting process and maintaining the strengths recorded along that line.
Frankly speaking, planting trees is a dual purpose move as it helps cover the bare land with green blanket on the one hand and enables operators to set up an oxygen plant/ factory, source of clean air, on the other.
Needless to state, Ethiopia has been unrelentingly working to meaningfully mitigate the impacts of climate change through planting tree seedlings year after year, which could be the best practice and the purposeful and breathtaking lesson to the rest of the world, indeed!
Yes, keeping a given nation greenish helps make the continent in which it is found green which in turn helps the entire world go green, too. Cognizant of the fact that a journey of a number of miles begins at a span, Ethiopia has been contributing a lot to the effort geared towards making the universe an earthly heaven devoid of climate change emanating from extreme heating, environmental pollution, and all sorts of human-made and natural calamities as much as possible.
The comprehensive effort the country has been exerting regarding promoting green legacy across the continent of Africa can be prettily regarded as a very good lesson to save the world via drawing important experience it has had so far.
What has to be taken into account in this regard is not only has Ethiopia embarked on getting itself go green but it has doing all its best to stamp its footprint on the greatest effort of the whole world towards creating a safe, green, peaceful and suitable planet for all living things and peculiarity inhabitants.
To genuinely put what the reality on the ground on the planet is, mother earth has long been suffering from a range of factors emanating from either all weather actions of all human race or the severe impacts imposed on it from nature itself.
What Ethiopia has been running concerning green growth, green economy, pollution free scenario and environmentally friendly actions have all been incomparable deeds from which the nation itself in particular and the Horn of Africa and the entire continent as well as the globe at a larger scale can be well rescued.
Unequivocally, plants are lives, souls and sources of healthy environment everywhere people go crossing rivers and trans-boundary territories. That is why it is recurrently heralded that Ethiopia's across-the-board endeavors regarding tree seedlings plantation is highly attributable to regional, continental and global safe environmental accounts.
Since the commencement of planting tree seedlings years back to well coat the nation, particularly the barren land, many locations in Ethiopia like the mountainous sites, city peripheries and other places on demand have been attractively and significantly covered thereby attracting fresh air apart from providing citizens with mesmerizing environmental scenes, from which the bearer can bargain health and mental remedy.
Yesterday, good news were coming from here and there to let citizens know about the national campaign commenced to plant some 700, 000, 000 tree seedlings a day. It is an incredible and earthshaking stride to get other countries of the world well learned though the move is not that much new for Ethiopia and Ethiopians as they have always accustomed to operate so.
All walks of life including the Premier partook in the tree seedlings plantation campaign and the occasion was widely televised. Besides, media outlets, be they are public or private, print or broadcast, have been allocating air time and columns to report the exemplary deed the country and its beloved citizens have been doing for the purpose of greening Ethiopia, the Horn and the universe at a wider spectrum.
The very all-time remembered and model movement for which Ethiopia has been known is the country has acculturated tree seedling plantation as part and parcel of its national undertaking tantamount to budgeting for national tasks undertaken year by year.
Many countries of the world especially neighboring ones have been following suit and started plating saplings to help their respective localities go green. Thanks to Ethiopia and Ethiopians the attempts countries are dealing with for the purpose of effectively combating the severe impacts of climate like desertification and land degradation have been pushed steps forward. Such an exhilarating task needs to be well expanded and heartily acknowledged by all for its repercussion can be an invaluable asset for other countries apart from the owner, Ethiopia, the great East African nation, from which many developed and developing states across the world can draw important lessons in all aspects in its own reach.
Go green Ethiopia! Go green Africa! Go green mother Earth! Since the former is carrying out emblematic undertakings especially with regard to greening ecology, setting up green economy, recording green growth, all countries of the globe are expected to flow into that channel and throw their ounce towards that trajectory.
As a piece of plot of the African continent, its second populous nation of course, and a dot of the universe when globally mapped, Ethiopia is coming to the forefront regarding numerous parameters amid some challenges compromising its all-encompassing national efforts.
Inhabiting over 120 million population this time around, the country is committed more than any time else to create a safe, healthily atmosphere and suitable environment for human race. Yes, greening places, especially which are prone to degradation, desertification and to the state of being barren, has been made a culture across the nation and people at every corner are committed to make the national plans real.
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Most definitely, tree plantation programs held at and around tourist attraction sites are influential instruments to pull many more visitors and tourist aside from making the surrounding area healthy and a basket of neat atmospheric phenomenon.
Yes, Ethiopia's effort has now been taken as a model for other countries in due course of protecting the environment, helping dwellers have suitable living and working places and by far supporting the continental and global endeavors for successfully combating climate change, which has been an imminent threat for living things in general and all human race in particular, as the latter's actions are either the healing remedies or the destructing factors of the planet.
In a nutshell, Ethiopia's move towards making land greener and safe using a range of tree seedlings which can be big trees later has to be well reinforced and replicated as much as possible since the effort the country has exerted so far has born toothsome fruits.
If truth be told, such a remarkable stride has provided other countries, peculiarly the neighboring ones, with a executable experience to expand tree plantation thereby coming up with green ecology and safe living and working environment. Thanks to the visionary leaders and the ever trusted populace the country has housed, whatever planned by the administration is put in place as promptly as possible.
The green legacy initiative Ethiopia deliberately commenced has been of paramount importance in promoting the effort exerted to create an appealing, green and suitable environment, which can contribute a lot to the global ecological safety.
