Under the patronage of Minister of Municipality and Environment H E Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi, the ministry yesterday marked Qatar National Environmental Day under theme “together to protect Al Ghaf trees”.
Several events were held at Katara, in presence of Ahmed Al Sada, Assistant Undersecretary for Environmental Affairs at Ministry, Khalaf Ajlan Al-Anzi, Director Public Relation Department and other officials and a number of students from different schools.
The environmental activities include workshops and competitions for students. It also included display of latest devices in environmental monitoring and protection.
Al Sada said: “This year we chose the theme ‘together to protect Al Ghaf trees’ because it is considered as our heritage tree and is now endangered. Therefore, we chose this theme to encourage people to take care of this plant and have asked them to plant more of it in the Qatari environment.”
For his side, Khalaf Ajlan Al-Anzi said the ministry marked the day of environment to increase awareness about the importance of environment. “The ministry wants to use this slogan this year so that people about this kind of trees.”
The Public Parks Department also marked the day and provided awareness lectures to a number of students about the danger of plastic and the proper ways to get rid of it. It also focused of the importance of planting trees and how to rationalize irrigation water.
Students were also educated about the campaign launched by the ministry to curb wall-chalking and the need to save streets from visual pollution.
