Join the Ekurhuleni Metro on Arbor Day, September 13, to plant trees to protect the metro against climate change.
Individuals, organisations, businesses, schools, churches, clubs and everyone else are invited to partake in the metro’s 11 000-trees-in-11-Minutes-in-101-Wards project to be held on September 13.
The project to plant trees in the metro began in April at the opening of Motsu Park in Tembisa.
Join in by contacting your ward councillor or the area project manager, Christina Nhlapo on 011 999 8816, to obtain a tree.
“The programme’s objective is to create an urban forest as a climate change proofing initiative.
“This is to directly respond to the challenges and risks posed by the negative impacts of the environmental change,” says Hezekiel Nkosi, head of department for the metro’s Department of Environmental Resource Management and Development.
He says the 11-minutes concept is symbolic of the urgency in which the inhabitants of the world need to act to combat the negative impacts of climate change implications.
