World Soil Day 2025
Healthy soils are the foundation of life on Earth. Each year on 5 December, World Soil Day (WSD) celebrates soils and raises awareness of their importance for sustainable agrifood systems, climate action, biodiversity, and human well-being.
The theme for 2025, “Healthy soils for healthy cities”, focuses on the role of soils in cities and the challenges posed by soil sealing and urbanization. With two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, soils are the foundations of sustainable and resilient cities.https://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/resources/events/detail/en/c/1742916/
The Importance of Soil for ….
• Food security: Soils provide the foundation for at least 95% of the
food we eat, supporting plant growth and providing the nutrients
necessary for food, feed, fuel and fiber.
• Climate regulation: Soils are a major carbon sink, storing more
carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined. They also play a role in regulating the climate and can mitigate floods.
• Ecosystem services: Soil, particularly peatlands, filter and store
water, recycle nutrients and help regulate the global climate by storing carbon dioxide and other gases and preserving peat.
• Biodiversity and resources: Soils are a reservoir for minerals, water
and air. There is an extraordinary diversity of organisms that call soil
home – including bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes, insects and earthworms – with many life-saving drugs originating from soil
microbes.
• Sustainable development: Protecting soils is critical for achieving
Sustainable Development Goals, as soil degradation threatens food
security, nutrition, and the ability to adapt to climate change
Pleased to see that 13 palm trees stumps were removed Gozo College Ġużé Aquilina Primary & Special Unit Sannat. Work undertaken by eco gozo with input from Siġar. The school will be able to use this field for their environment activities.
Good CSR activity !
Thank you Dorine van Heerdt for her donation and Żebbuġ Gozo Local Council for their collaboration and support.
It will found our activities and purchase of tools and materials.
Much appreciated !
Baskal Saliba
#trees
#gozomalta
#volunteering
2 oak saplings donated and delivered to Gozo by David Sciberras. Thank you. We will make sure they find a home.
Looked after by Maurice Stirling in the meantime.
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#gozomalta
Well done Il-Majjistral Nature and History Park.
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Photos from Xaghra Scout Group's post
Great day with Xaghra Scout Group.
We have planted a Arar tree (malta national tree) and a Rhamnus shrub.
Also adopted a fig tree and a cypress tree.
Scouts have planted the trees and will water them weekly.
Well done!
#gozomalta
#PlantingTrees
#volunteering
#trees
Great day with Xaghra Scout Group.
We have planted a L-Gharghar tree (Sandarac Gum Tree) which is also Malta's National Tree (is-sigra nazzjonali) and a Rhamnus shrub.
Also adopted at the site were a Fig tree and a Cypress tree.
Scouts have planted the trees and will water them weekly.
Well done!
#gozomalta
#plantingtrees
#volunteering
#trees
Great meeting with Gozo College Ġużé Aquilina Primary & Special Unit Sannat school team.
Siġar will assist setting up a pollinator garden at the school.
Exciting project for February 2026 with the school EkoSkola Nature Trust – FEE Malta group.
#gozomalta
#plantingtrees
#bees
#volunteering
Nice day taking EkoSkola Nature Trust – FEE Malta group from Gozo College Agius De Soldanis Middle School to Ministry tree nursery Dawwara in Victoria.
A great place to visit (and buy trees)!
#PlantingTrees
#trees
#volunteering
#gozomalta
Gardening and cleaning up at Zebbug playing field today. Sigar’s commitment. We plant and we follow up!
Great team efforts with volunteers, Żebbuġ Gozo Local Council and Baskal Saliba.
Activities for the event included :
3 olives trees planted by siġar in good shape. Groasis boxes removed and replaced by mulch.
Watering of oleanders and young trees.
Weed removed.
7 bags of litter and weed collected.
Irrigation checks with local council team.
#gozo
#plantingtrees
#volunteering
#trees
That’s a good news. Any major land restoration and rehabilitation is welcome in Malta.
🚿 💧 watering.
If it doesn’t rain enough, we will need to resume watering activities.
Siġar doesn’t just plant trees. We make sure that each tree is watered properly afterwards by pupils, volunteers or irrigation system.💪