In Islam everything belongs to God and people are only its users: waste is forbidden, spreading corruption on earth is forbidden, and a tree or crop that feeds people or animals counts as charity for the one who planted it.
EnvironmentThe Chattogram district administration will plant 100,000 saplings across 16 upazilas on 27 October, keeping 10,000 to 20,000 spares to replace any that fail, with coconut palms along the coast.
EnvironmentBadsha Mia, 65, of Pirganj in Rangpur owns no land, but over two decades he has planted more than 30,000 fruit, timber and medicinal trees along roads, at mosques and schools and on fallow land, and tends them at his own cost.
EnvironmentVolunteer group Prayas in Pakundia, Kishoreganj, gave one fruit, timber or medicinal sapling for every three plastic bottles or set amount of plastic waste, handing out about 700 saplings on Friday.
Rooftop farmingWriting in Dainik Azadi, Debashish Kanti Biswas argues that rooftop gardens add oxygen to city air and give families chemical-free food, and that training and free saplings would spread them to towns and villages alike.
EnvironmentRezaul Kibria Babul, imam of a mosque in Char Fasson, Bhola, sold family land to start a nursery and has planted 50,000 to 60,000 saplings and 25,000 to 30,000 palm seeds over 34 years.
EnvironmentAt a meeting with EU and European envoys, state minister Sheikh Faridul Islam said a carbon credit framework with rules for measuring and verifying cuts is under way, alongside solar irrigation, closing polluting brick kilns and planting native trees.
EnvironmentThe government plans to lift this year's target of 50 million trees to between 55 and 60 million, plant all year round, and favour fruit, timber and medicinal species suited to local soil and weather.
EnvironmentAfter seeing lightning strike a palm tree in 2002, Abul Kalam Azad of Sayadhangara, Sirajganj, began sowing palm seeds; thousands of his palms now line embankments, roads and school grounds.
The fifth meeting of the cell formed to deliver the five-year, 250 million tree planting pledge discussed care of saplings after planting, monitoring of survival rates and plans for green employment.
EnvironmentFrom 17 February to 15 September, 69.36 percent of this year's 51.5 million-sapling target was planted; the Forest Department will plant 20 million mangrove saplings on the coast in December and January.
EnvironmentForestry Commission chair Baroness Young told the APF Show that multi-purpose forestry is hard but the answer is more planting across timber, carbon and biodiversity.
Many saplings planted under Sirajganj's government tree-planting drive have died within six weeks for lack of care, while one Ullapara union shows a cost of about Tk 399 per tree against a market price of Tk 50 to 60.
