Food and water insecurity will rise due to these changes (Huma, 2018). As part of a nationwide effort, a large effort to plant and encourage trees is being made in the northwestern portion of Pakistan. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Ten Billion Tree Tsunami effort aims to plant new forests and rehabilitate existing woodlands to offer more than one new tree for every person on Earth. Pakistan has a shortage of forests.
Pakistan’s trees tsunami where there is a lack of forest biodiversity (conifers, riparian, thorn, and mangroves) has resulted from a lack of forest management approaches extending back more than a century.
Planting trees is being promoted to lessen the impact of natural catastrophes and improve the quality of life in urban settings. To span the 102,000 square kilometers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s landscape, the Billion Tree Tsunami program will be spread throughout the province’s varied topography and climatic conditions. Because of the large variety of environmental conditions in various locations, afforestation cannot be done consistently (Khan, 2018). To deploy Billion Tree Tsunami, there is currently a lack of knowledge on which afforestation species to use.
To determine which species would be ideal for trees tsunami in our study locations, we collected expert opinions and analyzed the data using multi-criteria decision-making analysis to create a dataset. First, we’ll go over the specifics of the research field under consideration. The following section will detail the procedure for gathering data from trees tsunami experts, information concerning the problem, what makes it a problem, and the treatment suggestions that were gathered. Following this, we include descriptions of the plant species examined for trees tsunami, how they were selected, and the factors considered in the multi-criteria analysis that was conducted. The two Analytic Hierarchical processes and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution were used in this study.
To prevent Pakistan’s trees tsunami, governments may form partnerships with farmers and landowners to examine the problem, what make it a problem, and the treatment suggestions for Pakistan’s trees tsunami (Syed, 2019). To address this issue, there is a need to support and expand their conduct in efforts like afforestation and reforestation, according to the World Bank.
Conclusion
The Billion Tree Tsunami project in Pakistan has identified the problem, what makes it a problem, and the treatment suggestions. Our findings will be valuable to policymakers in Pakistan’s forestry departments and other nations.
References
Huma, Z. (2018). Pakistan’s environmental challenge.
Khan, S. R. (2018). How Pakistan’s ‘tree tsunami will revive their climate action. In World Economic Forum. Available from: www. weforum. org/agenda/2018/12/Pakistan-bets-on-tree-tsunami-to-revive-climate-action/(accessed 10 May 2020).
Syed, H. (2019). Deforestation in Pakistan is explained using the issue attention cycle. GRIN Verlag.