By ZACHERY PER
Youths in Unggai-Bena district in Eastern Highlands province has targeted two million trees to be planted by 2012.
Unggai-Bena Member of Parliament and Environment and Conservation Minister Benny Allan has set an objective for the youths in the district that this would be the district’s green programme.
He said each youth would by then have planted at least 1,000 trees and have distributed over two million coffee seedlings in the district.
Mr Allan said tree planting, which would also include coffee planting and other crops, would be part of the fight against global warming.
Mr Allan said people between the ages of 13 and 40 had been identified in 10 different locations to plant the trees.
He said that the project would keep youths occupied and refrain from causing law and order problems in the country and engage in activities that helps to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases.
Mr Allan recently returned from the Bali climate change conference, where Papua New Guinean delegates created an impact by leading the chorus in calling on the US to take the lead in climate change by signing up with the rest of the world on carbon dioxide emission targets or step aside.