Coastal Clean-up and Coastal Tree Planting in Western Communities Featured
25 September, 2020. As part of the National Climate Change Awareness Week 2020 program, the Vulnerability and Adaptation Division of the Department of Climate Change under the Ministry of MEIDECC led a coastal clean-up and coastal tree planting program at Kolovai, ‘Ahau, Kanokupolu and Ha’atafu communities on Wednesday morning, 23rd September 2020.
The program emphasized communities in the Western District which are vulnerable to coastal erosion due to sea level rise and high tides to engage in a coastal clean-up and coastal tree planting.
The Vulnerability and Adaptation Division highlighted the tree planting by distributed coastal plants including Telie, Fotulona, Fao and Touhuni with a total of twenty (20) plants for each community who participated to help prevent coastal erosion.
The Parliament Representative of Tongatapu 5 Hon. Losaline Ma’asi, Hihifo District Officer, Town Officers and communities of Kolovai, ‘Ahau, Kanokupolu and Ha’atafu,Tonga National Youth Congress, Live & Learn, Tonga Community DevelopmentTrust, Tongatapu 5 Youth Council, Natural Resource Division Ridge to Reef Project, Department of Environment, Fo’ituluta Women’s Group, Tonga Development Bank Staff and Department of Climate Change were participated in this program.
An evidence of cooperation and partnership were revealed in the great attendance and participation of stakeholders during the coastal clean-up and coastal tree planting to ‘Build a Resilient Tonga’.
- MEIDECC
