Dar es Salaam, Jan. 1 -- MINISTER of State in the Vice Presidents Office (Union and Environment) Dr Selemani Jafo has unveiled plan of planting 267 million trees this year (2023), urging all Tanzanians to join forces of planting trees and protecting the environment to revert effects of global warming.

“I urge all Tanzanians in urban and rural settings to heed President Samia Suluhu Hassans call of joining efforts to conserve environment for our own development,” Dr Jafo said during an exercise of planting 100 trees in areas surrounding Kijazi Interchange in Dar es Salaam, yesterday.

In achieving this years target,  each of the 184 district councils country has been tasked to plant an average of 1.5 million trees.

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