Ajloun - The Directorate of Agriculture in
Ajloun
Governorate, in cooperation with the concerned authorities, is implementing
intensive field and awareness campaigns in order to preserve the forests and
the
environment from attacks.
اضافة اعلان
According to the Jordan News Agency, (Petra) , a number of
those interested in environmental and tourism affairs stressed the need not to
be complacent and to strengthen efforts to preserve forest wealth and picnic
sites, especially in light of the active tourism movement in the governorate.
The Vice-President of the Jordanian Environment Society,
lawyer Yazan Freihat, called for intensifying awareness campaigns and
increasing the number of rangers and protection workers in natural areas.
He
also emphasized the need to expand the construction of watchtowers and access roads
in the forests to help to protect them from encroachments and fires.
Freihat pointed out that the association has launched
campaigns to plant trees and improve
cleanliness in many sites, in order to
highlight the civilized face of the visitors of the tourist sites locally and
abroad.
The director of Ajloun Agriculture, engineer Hussein
Al-Khalidi, told the Jordan News Agency, (Petra), that the directorate has worked
to allocate mobile patrols, especially on holidays and in areas where there are
large numbers of visitors and tourists, to raise awareness of the importance of
maintaining the cleanliness of these sites and not leaving waste or burning
fires.
He indicated that 12,000 trees were planted in the Rajeb
area within the national afforestation project, noting that there are 7 forest
monitoring towers, 50 rangers and 8 round-the-clock patrols supported by
firefighters, water tankers and other mechanisms working to serve the forestry.
Khalidi also indicated that 32 penalties have been issued
since the beginning of this year, which confirms that there is a clear decline
in attacks on forest wealth as a result of follow-up and field inspection work
in cooperation with partners, security services and the Royal Administration
for Environmental Protection and Tourism.
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