30,000 trees to green Ipoh - Star

Monday April 13, 2009

THE Ipoh City Council has pledged to plant 30,000 trees by the end of the year in its effort to make the city greener.

Ipoh Datuk Bandar Roshidi Hashim said the city council’s target was to plant 19,000 shrubs and 11,000 larger plants.

“We have already planted about 3,000 trees within the city by March, and we can breathe easier with cleaner air produced by these trees,” said Roshidi, after a tree-planting ceremony at Keris Properties Sdn Bhd’s The Dales housing estate in Tambun.

He said that the city council had planted Brazilian ironwood, pagoda trees and merawan siput jantan trees.

Commending Keris Properties on its housing project that incorporated luscious greens, Roshidi urged other developers to follow suit.

Keris Properties Sdn Bhd group executive chairman Datuk Lee Seng Hee pledged to plant 5,000 more trees in its housing projects to support the city council.