From Our Correspondent
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) and ATC Nigeria, a wireless infrastructure provider, on Thursday, held a commemorative tree planting exercise at the Lekki Conservation Centre in Lagos.
TheNewsZenith reports that the exercise is part of the commitment of ATC Nigeria to environmental sustainability.
Speaking at the event, the Director-General of NCF, Dr Joseph Onoja, underscored the importance of taking care of the environment.
He said the environment would in turn take care of the humans that inhabit it.
Onoja said that environmental conservation indirectly means human conservation.
He added that the environment can take care of itself.
“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,” TheNewsZenith quotes Onoja as saying.
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He urged everyone to be intentional about nature conservation for environmental sustainability.
Also speaking, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ATC Nigeria, Mr Soji Maurice-Diya, said that it was important to take care of the environment through the planting of trees.
Maurice-Diya said ATC Nigeria would plant about 6000 trees in 11 locations across Nigeria.
According to him, it is important to demonstrate the company’s commitment to the environment in which they operate.
“For us, tree planting is a low-hanging fruit, especially for urbanisation and modernisation.
“It is something the general public can think of doing on their own for environmental sustainability.
“As a company, we have invested heavily in renewable energy, thereby reducing our per-site consumption of diesel by half,” ATC Nigeria boss said.
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