Ulaanbaatar
President of Mongolia participates in ‘National Tree Planting Day’ event
Environment
Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/. U. Khurelsukh, the President of Mongolia,
participated ‘National Tree Planting Day’ event organized at the National
Cultural Park.
In
his opening speech, President U.Khurelsukh conveyed gratitude to the public and
private sectors and the people for their active collaboration since the launch
of the One Billion Trees national movement.
He
continued highlighting that since the national movement began, arboretum
and tree nurseries have stocked 37 million seedlings and saplings across the
country, four times more than the previous year.
He also noted
that it is essential to pay attention to management, organization, and
financing to increase the resources of seedlings and saplings, to improve the
technical and human resource capabilities of enterprises, and to convey good
practices, best technologies, and innovations.
During
the event, the students of the ‘Erdmiin Urgoo’ complex school in the Bayangol District
of the Capital City got involved in the systematic training of growing seedlings
of woody plants in the bucket.
At the initiative of the Office of the President of Mongolia, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, the United Nations in Mongolia, and the United Nations Association of Mongolia jointly organized the ‘UN Youth Delegate - Environmental leadership’ program. He presented to the two best participants of this program the right to attend Mongolian youth at international UN conferences in Egypt and Canada.
The
President of Mongolia also met with representatives of forestry and
horticulture professional organizations, fertilizer manufacturers, and
representatives of timber industry machinery and equipment trade fairs.
Ts.Byambasuren, a head of the Union of Professional Organizations of Forestry and
Horticulture of Mongolia, introduced an online exchange website on www.modlog.mn for
organizations, businesses, and citizens to sell and buy seedlings.
The
Office of the President of Mongolia, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism,
the International Cultural Park, the Union of Professional Organizations of
Forestry and Horticulture of Mongolia, the ‘Environmental Information and
Training Center’ NGO, and the ‘Ecological Education Center’ of the National
University of Mongolia jointly organized this event.
