MOGADISHU, Somalia – Via Turkish sponsorship, college students, Turks and Somalis got here in giant numbers on Wednesday to mark Nationwide Forestation Day by planting bushes within the capital of arid Somalia.
“We celebrated National Forestation Day in Mogadishu with the assist of @tikasomalia and with the participation of Maarif colleges, Recep Tayyip Erdogan Hospital and the School of Well being Sciences. Planted tree crops to construct a inexperienced future for our world, ”the Turkish Embassy in Mogadishu mentioned in a submit on its Fb web page.
In keeping with a UN assertion, Somalia usually has a dry to semi-arid local weather. Precipitation within the nation is low and has nice spatial and temporal variation.
The terrain in Somalia consists primarily of dry and semi-arid plateaus, plains and highlands. Dry and semi-arid lands make up greater than 80% of Somalia’s land mass.
The initiative of the Turkish folks was aimed toward rehabilitating the ecosystem to deliver the tree inhabitants again into the nation, the place the few obtainable bushes have largely been felled by way of deforestation for firewood, shelter and fences.
