With Barbados suffering more than $200 million in losses this year from the ashfall from the Soufriere Hills Volcano, the June freak storm and Hurricane Elsa in July, Prime Minister Mia Mottley says the country must fight for adaptation and resilient funds.
The national campaign to plant more trees has been touted by Minister of Environment and National Beautification Adrian Forde as one way to help rehabilitate ex-convicts and bring them back into society.
The Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification has partnered with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to resume the National Tree Planting Project.
Eden Lodge Nursery School will soon have its own fruit farm.
Junior Chamber International (JCI), in partnership with the National Botanical Gardens, gifted the St Michael school with several trees as part of its national greening initiative.
The Barbados Olympic Association’s weeklong slate of activities to commemorate Olympic Day paid homage to the environment and its former Vice President the late Ralph “Bruggadung” Johnson with a tree-planting ceremony held in his honor on the grounds of the Olympic Centre last Thursday.
Leaders in global politics, science, communities, religion and culture joined hands today to officially kick off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – a rallying call for the protection and revival of millions of hectares of ecosystems all around the world for the benefit of people and nature.
To mark Barbados’ upcoming 54th anniversary of Independence, the Venezuela Embassy gifted 54 mango trees to the country. this was in support of Government’s objective to plant a million trees project.
Argentina’s outgoing Ambassador to Barbados, Gustave Pandiani and Minister of the Environment and National Beautification, Adrian Forde, “knock hands” following the planting of a jacaranda tree at the National Botanical Gardens today. (A. Reid/BGIS)
Minister of the Environment and National Beautification, Adrian Forde and Canadian High Commissioner, Marie Legault, planting a Baobab tree at the official opening of the WIRRED at Walkers Reserve (Sand Quarry) in St. Andrew today. (A. Reid/BGIS)
The Venezuela Embassy in Barbados hosted Dr. Chelston Brathwaite, former Ambassador to China and former Coordinator of the National Tree Planting project.
