Dear Editor,WE applaud the public declaration by President Hakainde Hichilema in Parliament to promote the agenda. Specifically, we applaud him for re-establishing a ministry responsible for environment.For us who have all along strongly believed in the green agenda, re-establishment of the ministry is a great sigh of relief after 10 years without a ministry of environment.The first thing PF did when they formed government in 2011 was to scrap off this ministry. They allowed mining in national parks.We, the environmentalists, went to court and temporarily blocked, through court action, the mining project in Lower Zambezi National Park from 2014 up to 2021. Sadly, a few months ago, the High Court directed that mining activities can proceed. This is heartbreaking.We failed to protect Lochinvar National Park from mining activities. The feedback we’ve just got from ZAWA on devastation of the ecosystem in the park is seriously likewise heartbreaking.We also failed but tried in vain to block […]
BALLY’S GREEN AGENDA WILL BE TESTED BY HIS COMMITMENT TO PROTECTION OF SENSITIVE ECOSYSTEMS
