The Port Moresby Nature Park is giving away free sapling trees to all its guests who visit during the festive season holidays.
This is part of their Tree for Life Campaign.
” Our vision is to be PNG’s leading recreational space inspiring through education the guardianship of PNG’s unique natural environment. And trees make up a large number of plants that give us air, and food and protect wildlife, the soil from eroding, and rivers. This campaign is supported by One Tree Planted. A non-profit organization that strives to have one tree planted by at least one person living on earth. And Pom Nature Park is proud to have been a partner of OTP for a number of years,” said Dr. Adrian Fowler – CEO of the Port Moresby Nature Park.
In PNG, the Port Moresby Nature Park is a planting partner of One Tree Planted where seedlings are raised in its nurseries.
Currently, the nursery has raised over 10,000 saplings ready to be planted.
” Our approach is two-fold. There is an education process for the visitor and then there is the planting process where we ask the Park visitor if they would like to take home the tree to plant or to donate to a community project such as schools, churches, and organizations, such as the NCDC, who have land space to plant hundreds and thousands of these vital earth-saving life-forms that are trees,” said Junior Muli.
The broad categories of trees that will be given away for free are fruit and nut trees, rainforest trees, shade trees, timber trees, and landscaping trees.
The Park has been partnering with numerous communities and institutions for several years to plant trees and has seen the city and outlying communities greened by the initiative.
The Park attracts over 100,000 visitors per year and focuses on three areas of education, conservation, and, recreation.
It relies on the generous support of the public, business community, NCDC, Government, and, development agencies that visit, host events, and financially support programs that promote the protection of PNG’s unique plants and animals.
