School tells students to teach villagers not to burn plastic

THE students of Kui Wamp Nga High School in Hagen central, Western Highlands, are urged to educate their people back home not to burn plastic.
Principal James Nathan told the students that plastic contained harmful chemical called soop and when it burnt, it affected their health and environment.
He told them to keep plastic bags in a safe place and reuse them.
Nathan’s school celebrated World Environment Day with tree-planting. The trees were supplied by the National Forestry Authority office at Kagamuga.
Nathan told the students that their environment was their mother nature and it provided everything that they needed to sustain their living.
He said that if they didn’t look after and preserve their environment, many good things that they normally got and enjoyed from their environment would disappear.
He told the students to manage and be very selective when cutting trees to build houses.
“Our country is one of the few countries in the world that is still covered with virgin forests,” Nathan said.
He said many countries in Africa were losing their forest through logging.
Acting provincial forestry officer Sakias Aine said the environment played an important role in communities.
He said bushes provided fresh water, fresh air, all kinds of animals for hunting, held up top soil and prevented landslides.”