Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA), represented in the National Program for Conservation and Energy Efficiency (Tarsheed), organized the "Planting of 70 Local Trees" event on Wednesday, November 28, at the KAHRAMAA Awareness Park. The event was held in cooperation with the Environmental Association Al Shabhanah (EAA), and aimed to protect rare national trees from extinction.

This event comes within the framework of achieving one of the pillars of Qatar National Vision 2030 in order to preserve the national environmental heritage for future generations by informing various categories of society about the importance of Qatari trees and the need to preserve crops that are under threat of extinction.

Event attendants included Eng. Abdul Aziz Ahmad Al-Hamadi – KAHRAMAA's Manager of Conservation and Energy Efficiency Department, Eng. Abdulla Al Khater – head of the EAA, as well as a number of subject matter specialists and concerned persons. These included Mr. Abdulla Al-Kuwari from Nomas Center and Dr. Haya Al-Maadidi, an EAA member. Besides, school students were also among the distinguished attendees of the event. This participation comes as part of KAHRAMAA's interest in the environmental field and endeavor to pursue its corporate objective to “increase social advocacy and environmental compliance”.

This event featured the first phase of this project, where five local species were planted. Later on, the project will be completed by planting 70 trees, including the Acacia Tortilis, Prosopis, Acacia Bark, Assyrian plum, Acacia, Christ's-thorn, Boxthorn and Acacia Ehrenbergiana. The trees served as a living example of the first environmental exhibition of local plants in the outdoor section of KAHRAMAA Awareness Park.