President
calls for all-out effort to replenish denuded land
Addis Ababa (ENA)- President
Girma Wolde-Giorgis has underscored the urgent need to launch all-out efforts
with a view to reversing the perilous situation of forest resources in
Ethiopia.
The president made the call
here at the Addis Ababa Hilton late Saturday during a reception thrown after a
30- minute Amharic documentary; ‘Witinkit’ which could literary be translated as
‘Morass’ was screened.
Forum for Social Studies
(FSS) produced the documentary that shows the ever-dwindling forest resource in
the country and highlights the activities that should be taken to reverse the
situation.
According to President Girma,
all available science and technology alternatives should be utilized to
maintaining what little is left of the country’s forest resource as well as to
replenishing denuded lands.
Population pressures,
poverty and lack of awareness are among the causes that triggered this
situation, where forests are increasingly led to waste.
FSS manager, a leading
researcher, said if unabated, the forest degradation is sure to entail a
difficult time ahead.
Efforts so far launched to
help reverse the situation should be redoubled and sustained as environmental
concern is but the concern of all, Dessalegn said.
Organizations and
researchers in the field as well as government officials attended the occasion.
Address: Forum for Social Studies, P. O. Box 25864 code 1000 Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
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