{"id":21479,"date":"2015-11-29T00:22:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T00:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandans-plant-30-million-trees-to-save\/"},"modified":"2015-11-29T00:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T00:22:28","slug":"rwandans-plant-30-million-trees-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandans-plant-30-million-trees-to-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandans Plant 30 million Trees To Save Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rwandans have today planted over 30 million trees across the country in a community exercise conducted every last Saturday of the month.<\/p>\n

Dr. Vincent Biruta, Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Natural Resources, said, \u201cI encourage all Rwandans to plant as many trees as they can to help prevent erosion and rehabilitate our natural forests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently Rwanda is in the middle of a rainy season.<\/p>\n

The official launch of the (2015\/16) planting season was held in Gatsibo District as the country celebrates the 40th anniversary of Forest Planting Season themed; \u201cEfficient use of biomass energy to safeguard our forests\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Rwanda\u2019s Environment management authority (REMA), the planting season targets to use 66,000 hectares across the country representing 2.5% of the country\u2019s total surface area.<\/p>\n

Statistics from the Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV4) indicate that 98.5% of households in Rwanda use fuel wood and charcoal.<\/p>\n

The government wants Rwandans to explore alternative sources of energy such as gas and solar but also cut down using charcoal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat percentage needs to be halved. We can achieve this by using biogas, LPG, improved cook stoves and other clean energy sources,\u201d Dr. Biruta said.<\/p>\n

Vulnerable residents of Gatsibo District have been given 19,000 improved cooking stoves.<\/p>\n

Some districts including; Nyagatare, Ngoma and Kamonyi, have specifically began planting more than 40,000 fruit trees.<\/p>\n

REMA also says bamboo trees are being planted in gullies to help rehabilitate degraded land across affected zones in the country. Trees are also being planted to rehabilitate forests on 1,010 hectares of public land.<\/p>\n

During this season, REMA officials say that new forest woodlots will be planted on 7,818 hectares and also over 49,000 hectares of agroforestry systems will be planted.<\/p>\n

Rwanda\u2019s total surface is covered by 28.8 % of Forests. However, government is aiming at increasing to 30% forest cover by 2017.<\/p>\n

The theme for this year\u2019s World Environment Day celebrated every 5th June is; \u201cSeven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Rwandans have today planted over 30 million trees across the country in a community exercise conducted every last Saturday of the month. Dr. Vincent Biruta, Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Natural Resources, said, \u201cI encourage all Rwandans to plant as many trees as they can to help prevent erosion and rehabilitate our natural forests.\u201d Currently Rwanda is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2470],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-kt-press"],"bylines":[{"id":2470,"name":"KT PRESS","slug":"kt-press","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2470,"name":"KT PRESS","slug":"kt-press","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070467,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21479.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21479.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21479.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21479.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21479.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21479.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21479"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21479"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}