Desertification: NESREA Urges Gombe Communities To Allocate Land For Tree Planting - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 30, 2019
The National Environmental Standards and RegulationsEnforcement Agency, NESREA has advised communities in Gombe State on the needto allocate land for tree planting within their communities to fightdesertification.
NESREA acting Director, North-East Zone  Daniel Wuave, said this in Gombe thatthe fight against desertification is a challenge that affects all.
Desertification is the continuous degradation ofbiological potentials of land which can lead ultimately to desert-likeconditions.
He said desertification reduces the sustainability oflands, making agriculturally productive lands to become barren and prone towind, water erosion and other forms of degradation.
Wuave said the tree planting initiative has become animperative tool for communities in the state to fight desertification.
The acting zonal director noted that the increasingrate of tree felling in the state required massive efforts at community levelto fight the menace of desertification.
Wuave said desertification has led to increase indrought and flash floods that are stronger, more frequent and widespread isdestroying the land.