Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Syeda Rizwana Hasan said that no social afforestation will be allowed in natural forests. Natural forests will remain as natural forests.
She said if social afforestation is to be conducted, agreements should be signed with the beneficiaries. Their main duty of the Forest Department is to protect natural forests. No social afforestation will take place in natural forests.
Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan came up with the assertion while speaking as the chief guest at an international environmental conference held at the conference room of Tangail Bureau Bangladesh in Tangail on Wednesday.
She also spoke about preventing electricity wastage, saying you can see that we have turned off all the lights of this conference room during the day. We need to understand where electricity is produced from and how it is generated. We should not waste electricity during the day when natural light is available. In the same way, we should not keep the lights on when this programme is being held during the daytime.
She also mentioned the ongoing difficulty in cleaning the Buriganga River in Dhaka, explaining that layers of plastic are obstructing dredging efforts. She emphasized that we all need to stop using plastic.
Deputy Commissioner Sharifa Haque, Professor Dr Shahidul Haque from the Department of Biotechnology at Bangladesh Agricultural University, Executive Director of Aspara Environmental Development Foundation Lion MA Rashid, and Secretary General of Riverine People Sheikh Rokon.
The session was presided over by Bureau Bangladesh’s HRD and ICT Director of Operations and Financial Services, Farmina Hossain. Executive Director of Sabuj Prithibi, Sahid Mahmud, delivered the welcome speech.
