Nepal offers tourists to plant trees, addresses climate issue (2)

Meanwhile, Nepali Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Sharat Singh Bhandari planted saplings during a program organized by TAAN with the theme of "Biodiversity - Ecosystems Management and the Green Economy". Some 400 different religious saplings including Elaeocarpus Granites, Prosopis Spicigera, Ficus Religiosa, Cinnamomum Camphora, Nyctanthes Arbortristis were planted in the Pashupati area.

Nepal has launched a national tourism campaign "Nepal Tourism Year" (NTY-2011) to attract more than one million tourists in the country which will help it to recover economy damaged by a decade long armed conflict.Source:Xinhua
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