Women movement, partners plant trees at Sunyani GBC premises

By Dennis Peprah

Sunyani, (Bono), June 05, GNA – The Ahafo Young Women Movement (AYoM), with funding from the Global Greengrant Fund (GGF), on Thursday planted varieties of tree species at the Bono Regional Office of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to mark the 2025 celebration of the World Environment Day (WED). The AYoM is a women association that promotes women rights and environmental sustainability.

They collaborated with Livelihood and Environment Ghana (LEG), an environmentally inclined non-government organisation and other local partners to plant the trees comprising Montalis, Royal Palm, Ofram, Mango and Lemon species to beautify the premises of the state broadcaster and to protect the environment.

The other local partners include Department of Forest Science of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) as well as the Network for Rights and Environmental Governance (NEWREG), the Tano Women Empowerment and Development Association (TWEDA), the Women Association of Environmental Sustainability (WAES) and the Women Integrated Development Association (WIDA), all NGOs.

Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and held annually on 5 June since 1973, the WED is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach and is celebrated by millions of people across the world to encourage awareness and action for protection of the environment.

The Republic of Korea is hosting the 2025 WED which focuses on combating plastic pollution. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the side-lines of the tree planting exercise in Sunyani, Madam Priscilla Mensah, the Leader of the AYoM said with support from the GGF the association had secured a parcel of land at Dumasua in the Sunyani West Municipality to plant different types of trees to help mitigate climate change impact.

“We have purchased tree seedlings, prepared the land and we are going to plant and nurture the trees for the optimum benefit,” she stated.

Mad Mensah noted that climate change had become a global canker threatening life on earth, particularly developing countries with women and children being the most vulnerable.

“Women depend largely on land for their livelihood through farming, particularly those in rural communities. Unfortunately, our planet is already warmed by 1.1 degrees Celsius with limited rainfall which is unfavourable for farming”, she stated.

In another interview, Mr. Richard Adjei-Poku, an Environmentalist and the Executive Director of LEG, said tree planting had been identified to be one of the best climate change mitigation measures, and called on Ghanaians to adopt the practice of planting and nurturing trees.

That, he added, would greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, urging the nation to also improve its climate change adaptation actions too.

Professor Daniel Akoto Sarfo, the Head of Department of Forest Science, UENR also told the GNA that recent research showed that microplastics were now in almost everything that existed on the earth.

He cautioned the public about the indiscriminate dumping of plastic waste and containers, urging everybody to plant and nurture trees in the supreme interest of the nation.

Mrs Christiana Kumah, the Bono Regional Director of the GBC expressed appreciation to the NGOs and promised to ensure that the trees were nurtured.

Published by GNA | Edited by Dennis Peprah/Benjamin Mensah

Source: https://gna.org.gh/2025/06/women-movement-partners-plant-trees-at-sunyani-gbc-premises/