National Arbor Week 2014
Forests and People: Investing in a sustainable future
Arbor Week focal areas
Arbor Week provides a platform to disseminate messages around the following focal areas:
1. Greening
Communities and schools are encouraged to participate in tree planting and greening programmes for beautification and improvement of their immediate environment.
2. Commercial value of trees
This theme captured the benefit that is derived from making products out of trees such as paper, planks and medicines. Commercial plantations and downstream processing industries provide employment and business opportunities, especially in rural areas where there are high levels of poverty and unemployment
3. Veld and forest fires
The focus is on the prevention and combating of uncontrolled wild fires and on encouraging the formation of Fire Protection Associations.
4. Remembrance tree planting
This is an initiative aimed at encouraging communities and individuals to plant trees in memory of their loved ones and individuals who contributed to community development and nation building.
Arbor Week in Pretoria
The City of Tshwane’s Environmental Management Services Department will be engaging in a number of action-oriented activities so as to contribute to environmental sustainability and take part in creating a resilient and resource-efficient city.
The City is committed to planting a mixture of about 5 000 fruits and indigenous trees during the month of September. The trees will be planted at the identified schools, old age homes, orphanages, cemeteries, households and parks.
Other Arbor Week activities that the City’s Environmental Management Services has planned are captured below:
Date | Time | Venue | Activity |
1 September | 9h30 – 12h00 | Rekopantse Primary in Mabopane, Region 1 |
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3 September | 9h00 – 12h00 | Soshanguve ext 6 new RDP area, Region 1 |
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4 September | 9h00 – 12h00 |
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5 September | To be confirmed | Wonderboom Nature Reserve in Region 2 |
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5 September | 9h00 – 12h00 | Mahlenga Secondary and Mkhambi Primary both in Sokhulumi, Region 7 |
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