The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) and ATC Nigeria, a wireless infrastructure provider, has held a commemorative tree planting exercise at the Lekki Conservation Centre.
The exercise was part of the commitment of ATC Nigeria to environmental sustainability.
Speaking at the event, the Director-General, NCF, Dr Joseph Onoja, underscored the importance of taking care of the environment so that the environment would in turn take of the humans that inhabit it.
Onoja said that environmental conservation indirectly means human conservation.
He added that the environment has the capacity to 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.
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 that ATC Nigeria would be planting about 6000 trees in about 11 locations across Nigeria.
According to him, it was important to demonstrate the company’s commitment to the environment that they operate in.
“For us tree planting is a bit of a low hanging fruit, especially in an era of alot of urbanisation and modernisation.
“It is something our team members and staff and the general public can think of doing on their own for environmental sustainability.
“As a company we have invested heavily on renewables thereby reducing our per site consumption of diesel to about fifty per cent.
For Chinwe Odigboegwu, the Executive Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs. ATC Nigeria, tree planting is important for the sustainability of the environment.
“Personally, tree planting is something I am involved in to make the earth a better place,” Odigboegwu said.
The climax of the event was the planting of trees by the members of staff of the company and the D-G, NCF.
