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About 117 trees on National Cathedral site relocated

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The Department of Parks and Gardens has so far relocated about one hundred and seventeen trees to set the scene for the construction of the National Cathedral to proceed.

GBCNEWS visited the site earmarked to preserve the over 60-year-old-trees and authorities say the recovery rate is about eighty-five per cent.

The assurance is that some of the trees will be brought back to the site after the Cathedral is completed and others replanted elsewhere.

The innovation to relocate the trees to a temporary site at the Department of Parks and Gardens is in line with an adage that says, “Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.”

The over one hundred trees include coconut, palm, neem, mango, moringa, cornifers, Terminalia trees and more.

The Ag. Director at the Department of Parks and Gardens, Rev. Charles Okine takes us through the techniques.

https://youtu.be/bBCQYXTgNmU

The Project Coordinator for the treebank, Rev. Richard Forson says the process has been successful.

For the doubting Thomases, the Department of Parks and Gardens says it has developed the capacity and expertise to re-plant some of the trees when the Cathedral is completed and provide similar support to future developments.

In line with this, the Department of Parks and Gardens has also set up a treebank, a one–stop hub for all species of trees to reduce the impact of climate change.

To nature lovers, all these serve as proof of the concept that ancient trees need not be felled to make way for private and public construction projects. And the popular saying is that “when the last tree dies, the last man dies”.

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