National Vice president (North Central) Environmental Health Officer Association of Nigeria, Solomon Anyegwu has appealed to governments at all level to discourage incessant felling of trees, saying, deforestation has serious negative impact on the environment.
Anyegwu who disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Lokoja said trees has a way of regulating the temperature of environment, including the impurity in the atmosphere.
Anyegwu stated that because of deforestation there are no trees to make use of the bulk green house gas that comes from generators and other industrial uses, which according to him, resulted to climate change.
“Trees are also raw materials that are use by pharmaceutical industries by using the leaves, bark of the tree and root to produce drugs . Today they are indiscrinately being felled and this is affecting our health because drugs that should have been manufactured from the provisional function of trees is not there. So, it go a long way to affect pharmaceutical industries”, he said.
However, he advocated for serious enlightenment and sensitisation campaign by various environment agencies across the country, saying that members of the public should be educated on the danger and negative effect of tree felling.
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