{"id":73476,"date":"2019-01-22T03:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T01:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73476"},"modified":"2019-01-22T03:45:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T01:45:39","slug":"malawi-defense-force-calls-for-forest-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/22\/malawi-defense-force-calls-for-forest-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Defense Force calls for forest preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Feston Malekezo: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73480\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-spoon-phiri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-spoon-phiri-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-spoon-phiri-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-spoon-phiri-45x35.jpg 45w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/griffin-spoon-phiri.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHIRI\u2014 Forests are our second home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Malawi Defense Force has announced plans to plant 50,000 trees as part of environmental conservation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers, led by their Commander General Griffin Spoon- Phiri, said this in Mzuzu on Friday when launching the exercise at Moyale Barracks.<\/p>\n<p>Spoon-Phiri said the soldiers have also received K4.2 million from Press Trust for use in the initiative.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis is a very important exercise and we appreciate the support we have received from our partners. The importance of tree planting cannot be over emphasised.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne of our enemies is deforestation and we shall deal away with this. I am saying this because for us, soldiers, forests are our second home and we need to take care of them,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Press Trust trustee, Amos Maliro, said they are concerned with what he described as \u201calarming levels\u201d of forest depletion.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 11 years, the trust has supported the government and its partners with over K72 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Feston Malekezo: The Malawi Defense Force has announced plans to plant 50,000 trees as part of environmental conservation efforts. The soldiers, led by their Commander General Griffin Spoon- Phiri, said this in Mzuzu on Friday when launching the exercise at Moyale Barracks. Spoon-Phiri said the soldiers have also received K4.2 million from Press Trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73481,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73476\/revisions\/73481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}