 Nigeria ranks top 5 among countries with the fastest rate of deforestation in the world, losing about 350,000 hectares of forest every year, hence the need to plant more trees. Director General of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, Motari Amino Kano, said this at the flag off of a massive tree planting project across three geopolitical zones of the country. Amino Kano said though the government has made pledges to the international community, it is up to non-governmental organisations and responsible and forward-looking individuals to achieve the goal of deforestation. The NCFDG hints that they hope to take the project to all states of the federation with a special focus on Delta States where they are plans to create a mini-conservation education centre. We already have our one-and-a-half hectare piece of land donated to us by the President of our foundation, Chief Philippa Seodu, and we are just preparing it for planting when the partnership comes with ATC. So ATC is going to support the re-editation of that one-and-a-half hectares and the establishment of a conservation education centre where school children around Asaba will be able to use it as their field laboratory and they will come and see nature in practice and enjoy the land just like people come to let the conservation centre to do. The exercise brought together environmental enthusiasts and organisations who were education on the benefits of deforestation and the need to protect the environment by planting more trees. And when the canal also recounted the benefits associated with planting trees to include food and shelter, however, listed some of the challenges associated with looking outside the forests. There are many challenges with looking after forests and making sure that trees remain standing. The major one is expansion of agriculture. Agriculture itself, there is nothing wrong with it, but the way we do it, we slash and burn. So every couple of years a farmer gets his soils where his tillings are tired and then he or she goes to a new place, cuts down all the trees and starts again. Then with actual restoration and planting of the trees, there are also quite a few challenges. You need to protect the area where you plant the trees otherwise animals, goats, cattle and so on can go and eat up the tillings you've planted.