Online Reporter
Tendai Rupapa
Senior Reporter
ENVIRONMENT patron, First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa has joined President Mnangagwa, top Government officials and schoolchildren in planting trees at Nyamuroro High School in Gokwe ahead of the Children’s Party that she is co-hosting with the President.
The First Lady planted the Red Mahogany or Muwawa tree, which is endemic in Manicaland Province and is the biggest tree in the SADC region.
The tree has acclimatised in all the regions due to its fast-growing attributes. It is one of the country’s commercial indigenous tree species.
Today’s event saw the establishment of a Trabablas Arboretum, which is a combination of indigenous tree species for educational and research purposes.
The First Lady is leading the domestication of indigenous trees in cooperation with community livelihoods, and this is one of the trees that she is promoting to reclaim forests and degraded areas.
