{"id":36214,"date":"2017-11-08T07:13:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T07:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/forestry-ministry-police-in-joint-tree-planting\/"},"modified":"2017-11-08T07:09:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T07:09:33","slug":"forestry-ministry-police-in-joint-tree-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/forestry-ministry-police-in-joint-tree-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Forestry Ministry, Police in joint tree planting campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the partnership, Police will contribute in sustaining existing forests and plant agro-forests on the surface of 22,000 hectares and new forests on 5000 hectares in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, the Minister of Justice, Johnston Busingye said that the partnership was necessary as a way to improve forestry cover in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a good move to planting and sustaining existing forests. When you are travelling from different parts of the country, you realize that something is missing on our mountains; our country has many eye attraction features but it lacks enough tree cover,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Land and Forestry, FrancineTumushime said the partnership came in time of need as the country and the World in general is implementing resilient efforts towards climate change. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a partnership needed in all country\u2019s institutions. Protecting soil from erosion and planting trees are among measures to mitigaet climate change effects,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nThe Government targets to have 30% of the surface of the country planted with trees by 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22518 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kiuyt-2.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Justice, Johnston Busingye\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22519 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mfr.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Land and Forestry, FrancineTumushime\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22517 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/llll-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Land and Forests and Rwanda National Police have signed a Memorandum of Understanding through which both parties shall plant trees, protect and conserve forests across the country.<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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\/36214","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=36214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36214"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36214"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}