Govt ordered not to plant eucalyptus, acacia trees

Govt ordered not to plant eucalyptus, acacia trees

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, has ordered the Forest Department to no longer plant eucalyptus and acacia trees.
She instructed the department to preserve other tree species except for eucalyptus and acacia planted for social forestry along roadsides, reads a press release.
Rizwana issued the directives during a special meeting held at the Forest Department office in Agargaon, Dhaka today (12 November).