(KUNA) – The public authority of agricultural affairs and fisheries has publicly declared a plan that aims to plant 35 million seedlings to rehabilitate the Kuwaiti wildlife. The planting of seedlings would be placed in greenhouses over an estimated surface area of 1600 square meter.

Engineer Ghanem AlSand – Agricultural extension department general manger - said to (KUNA) that the authority is currently working on achieving a number of climbers in “Al Abdly” area over a total surface area exceeding 40 thousand square meters to plant and habituate the wild plants. He also added that the authority is working on construction of fields to cover a surface area of more than two thousand square meters in the “Al Abdly” area to be able to produce seeds and greenhouses to produce seedlings alongside preparation of a similar area in “Al Aredya” transplant nursery as a cooled greenhouses for the production of wild plants.

AlSanad also gave a point on a model farm construction in “Al Wafra” area to produce wild plants seeds through its dependent transplant nurseries in addition to production of wild plants seeds of those species on the verge of extinction by increasing and replanting it again and spreading it in its original environment

He also mentioned that the authority endeavors through the wild plants center to document the wild plants life through construction of a related database and connecting this database to the geographical information system in addition to the efforts in development of agricultural awareness about the importance of the wild plants by the awareness programs the authority provides through agricultural extension.

He also declared that the Kuwaiti environment is rich with living organisms like reptiles, birds, fish, seaweeds in addition to the wild plants which grow naturally without any human interference and adapt to the environment where it grows to become its natural habitat and also it becomes annular plants or perennial plants.

Eng. AlSanad also said that the existence of these creatures in the wild environment insures the biodiversity which stabilize the environmental balance clarifying that the plant surface is one of the oldest living organisms on the earth and it has a number of environmental characteristics which take part in forming a complete wildlife with all of its constituents.

He also illustrated that this plant surface consists of either naturally grown plants or other plants were added to the natural environment and adapted to grow in it, or plants that used to exist in the old times and removed due to extinction because of climate change or human activities. He also mentioned that the cultivated area in Kuwait is the most liable to the climate changes as it exists in uncovered areas, explaining that the most important climate phenomenon which was noticed directly on the plant surface is the global warming which resulting in the release of the toxic carbon dioxide gas.

Alsanad also explained that Kuwait geographical location is in the desert belt which makes it exposed to more sandstorms, lack of rain and elevation in temperature alongside it is more liable to desert encroachment and formation of sand dunes which lead to removal of plant surface. He also reflected that the reasons behind the Kuwaiti environmental slumping are the continuity of human activity which started with the Iraqi invasion and the spreading of its waste of mines, petroleum wells’ fires alongside what the environment suffer from the over-grazing