The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA has advised communities in Gombe State on the need to allocate land for tree planting within their communities to fight desertification.
NESREA acting Director, North-East Zone Daniel Wuave, said this in Gombe that the fight against desertification is a challenge that affects all.
Desertification is the continuous degradation of biological potentials of land which can lead ultimately to desert-like conditions.
He said desertification reduces the sustainability of lands, making agriculturally productive lands to become barren and prone to wind, water erosion and other forms of degradation.
Wuave said the tree planting initiative has become an imperative tool for communities in the state to fight desertification.
The acting zonal director noted that the increasing rate of tree felling in the state required massive efforts at community level to fight the menace of desertification.
Wuave said desertification has led to increase in drought and flash floods that are stronger, more frequent and widespread is destroying the land.
