Mission Green
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 10 2016:
Mission Green, one of the programmes of the Manipur Mountaineering and Trekking Association (MMTA) was launched today with members of the Editors' Guild Manipur (EGM) and other media persons at MMTA complex.
Guided by the philosophy of 'Think Global, Act Local', volunteers of MMTA launched the Mission Green together with media persons to reach out to a larger section of the society to meet the challenges of deforestation and degrading environment.
After jointly planting saplings, MMTA president N Ibungochoubi appealed to media persons to continuously highlight the importance of regular tree plantation.
Plantation of a wide range of saplings including fruit bearing, decorative, ornamental and medicinal trees and plants in and around Lamdan village with the support of the DFO Bishnupur and personnel of the CRPF post located at NHPC Loktak marked the commitment of MMTA towards conservation of nature, conveyed a press release.