{"id":2601,"date":"2018-02-08T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2018-02-08T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T09:50:19","slug":"du-staff-members-volunteer-with-the-give-a-ghaf-project-to-raise-awareness-about-plant-preservation-and-water-scarcity-in-the-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/du-staff-members-volunteer-with-the-give-a-ghaf-project-to-raise-awareness-about-plant-preservation-and-water-scarcity-in-the-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Du Staff Members Volunteer With The Give a Ghaf Project To Raise Awareness About Plant Preservation And Water Scarcity In The UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In line with du\u2019s sustainability efforts and its vision to help build a cleaner and greener UAE, staff members volunteered with the Give a Ghaf Project on February 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018. The Give a Ghaf Project \u2013 run by community organization Goumbook\u2013 aims to raise awareness of the UAE\u2019s national tree, the Ghaf, which has experienced a steady decline in recent years due to grazing, intensive lopping, and excessive groundwater extraction.<\/p>\n<p>du&#8217;s staff members have been volunteering with the Give a Ghaf Project since 2014, contributing hundreds of volunteer hours to assist Goumbook in their efforts to plant, grow, and maintain the desert-native Ghaf tree. Between 2015 and 2016, du volunteers contributed to the planting of more than 1,800 seedlings \u2013 one seed per employee \u2013 which have since been growing at Goumbook\u2019s nursery and will eventually be replanted in schoolyards, residential communities, and open landscapes. This year, du employees assisted with re-planting, re-seeding, and re-tagging potted Ghafs at Goumbook\u2019s nursery, as well as loading plants into trucks to be re-planted in various destinations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2602\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/B-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/B-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/B-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/B-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/B-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In line with du\u2019s sustainability efforts and its vision to help build a cleaner and greener UAE, staff members volunteered with the Give a Ghaf Project on February 7th, 2018. The Give a Ghaf Project \u2013 run by community organization Goumbook\u2013 aims to raise awareness of the UAE\u2019s national tree, the Ghaf, which has experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}