The commissioner for environment and sanitation in Osun State, Hon. Mayowa Adejoorin, has solicited the support of Ago Owu forest reserves’ communities to ensure that the data gathering and capturing for the implementation of Ago-Owu Forest Restoration Project (AFRP) succeed.

In a statement issued by Bunmi Badiora, Adejoorin, the Information Officer of the Ministry of Environment, while declaring open data gathering and capturing meeting held with heads of communities around Ago Owu Forest Reserves, listed “the gains of reforestation, urging the residents to key into government’s policies on the climate change by planting more trees.”

Speaking through the ministry permanent secretary, Mr. Richard Oyegbami while declaring open the engagement workshop with the landlord community, Adejoorin stressed the need for their cooperation towards getting baseline information to fill the project development document, project information note and MOU.

He commended the residents for the eagerness showed towards the project, urging them “to ensure that the trees that will be planted are protected for the purpose for planting them to be realised.”

Giving more explanation about the project, the leader of the Nature Based Solution of the AhDrabad Noblesse Green, Carbon Investment Project, Dr. Edu Efe, said the group was in the State for the commissioning of data gathering and capturing by getting the necessary baseline information that would be filled into the project development document for Ago Owu Forest Reserves.

The expert, who maintained that there were many benefits of reforestation, told the participants that the cocoa and other cash crops would do better if, nurtured under the covering of trees.