{"id":36152,"date":"2017-10-30T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/30-000-trees-planted-as-premier-urges-public-on\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:29:09","slug":"30-000-trees-planted-as-premier-urges-public-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/30-000-trees-planted-as-premier-urges-public-on\/","title":{"rendered":"30,000 trees planted as Premier urges public on forest  protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ngirente was speaking Saturday after monthly community work (Umuganda) in Nyagatare District where a total of 30,000 trees were planted.<\/p>\n<p>He called on residents to protect forestry saying that it is the foundation of sustainable development.<br \/>\n \u201cWhen a big section of the population uses bio-fuels for cooking, it negatively impacts the conservation efforts. Today 83% of Rwandan population use bio-fuel for cooking, but the government targets to reduce that to 43% by 2020,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to achieve this target, it requires adoption of energy efficient cooking methods including gas for city dwellers and biogas and saving stoves (Rondereza) for the rest\u201d he urged the public.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda targets to have 30% of her surface planted with trees by 2020.  However, Ngirente said that achieving the target will require everyone\u2019s contribution.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Land and Forestry, Francine Tumushime requested Nyagatare residents to plant more trees as well as sustaining the existing forests, Which are decreasing. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22376 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_6630-2-1bc0f.jpg\" alt=\"Ngirente speaks to Nyagatare residents\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22375 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngirente-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22374 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngirente_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22373 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngirentee.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22372 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngirentea.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister, Dr. Edouard Ngirente plants a tree.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22371 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/planting.jpg\" alt=\"A total of 30,000 trees were planted \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister, Dr. Eduard Ngirente has called on members of the public to protect national resources to keep a proper balance of the eco-systems including forests by adopting  modern cooking practices that do not demand for massive use of bio-fuels, a move that will contribute to environmental conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36152","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36152"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36152"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}