KAARO KARUNGI | KABAROLE – Rotary club of Fort Portal has launched a tree planting campaign with an aim of conserving the environment.
The Rotary club of Fort Portal president Bryan Kisembo said on Saturday during the launch of the campaign at the UPDF mountain division headquarters Muhooti barracks that catastrophes can be averted if people embark on a drive to restore natural resources like forests, most of which have been destroyed by human activity.
Kisembo said that people are duty bound to protect the environment.
He said that the Rotary club of Fort Portal was working with Rotary club of Kabarole to plant 2000 trees worth 10M by the end of August in Muhooti barracks.
Kisembo decried the increasing destruction of natural resources that has exposed the entire Rwenzori region to effects of Climate Change and Global Warming.
Wilson Asiimwe the incoming Rotary club of Fort Portal director for public relations said that in the recent past, the region experienced extreme weather conditions resulting in devastating floods, drought and landslides which have not only destroyed properties worth hundreds of millions of shillings but claimed lives.
Asiimwe argued that it is the responsibility of all people to mitigate the dangerous climatic conditions that have come with environmental degradation.
Asiimwe said that they launched the Rotary tree planting campaign by giving 1,000 trees to the army.
Asiimwe said Rotary club of Fort Portal is conscious of the natural disasters that have rocked the Rwenzori region.
