The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) and ATC Nigeria, a wireless infrastructure provider, have held a commemorative tree planting exercise at the Lekki Conservation Centre as part of the commitment of ATC Nigeria to environmental sustainability.
Speaking at the event, the Director-General, NCF, Dr Joseph Onoja, underscored the importance of taking care of the environment so that the environment would, in turn, take care of the humans that inhabit it.
Onoja said that environmental conservation indirectly means human conservation.
In his words, “Environmental conservation is indirectly linked to human conservation, We are not doing the environment a favour, but it is the human beings that we are doing a favour. Our lives are closely linked to the health of the environment.
The DG said that the environment has the capacity to take care of itself.
He urged everyone to be intentional about nature conservation for environmental sustainability.
The Chief Executive Officer of ATC Nigeria, Mr Soji Maurice-Diya, on his part, said that it was important to take care of the environment through the planting of trees. Maurice-Diya said that ATC Nigeria would be planting about 6000 trees in about 11 locations across Nigeria to demonstrate the company’s commitment to the environment that they operate in.
According to him, “For us tree planting is a bit of a low hanging fruit, especially in an era of a lot of urbanisation and modernisation. “It is something our team members and staff and the general public can think of doing on their own for environmental sustainability.
He also said that the company has invested heavily on renewables, thereby reducing the company’s per site consumption of diesel to about fifty per cent.
For Chinwe Odigboegwu, the Executive Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs of ATC , ” tree planting is something I am involved in to make the earth a better place.
The climax of the event was the planting of trees by the members of staff of the company and the D-G, NCF.
NAN
