The hillside at Morgan Lewis, St Andrew, is now more beautiful after the planting of ten trees yesterday.
According to Kammie Holder, public relations officer/director of the Future Centre Trust, the trees were planted as part of an ongoing reforestation project and as part of International Day of Climate Action.
FCT members watched as Prime Minister David Thompson’s daughters Oya and Misha planted the first five trees on behalf of their mother Mara, patron of the event.
The next five trees were planted by Opposition Leader Mia Mottley.
Holder said Barbados could not “play a wait-and-see game” since weather patterns were changing all over the world and trees were needed to alleviate carbon emissions.
“Today over 7 000 events are taking place simultaneously around the world as part of the International Day of Climate Action, [and] already we can see the change in weather patterns. We can even see rain in areas where there was no rain . . . . People take trees for granted.”
