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HARARE, Zimbabwe - At least 52,400 hectares (129,483 acres) of forests in the southern African country of Zimbabwe are destroyed every year due to tobacco curing, leaving tobacco farmers in a dilemma to either save forests or harvest tobacco. Speaking to Anadolu Agency on the eve of Forest Week observed from March 21 to 26,…

It’s Forest Week in Flanders, with the announcement that some 22,000 trees will be planted in the Brussels periphery (or the Vlaamse rand in Dutch).

Volunteers, workers help plant seedlings as part of Growing Climate Resilient Forests for Chilliwack

CIS Executive Committee reforests over 28ha in Belarus as part of Forest Week project MINSK, 9 April (BelTA) - Over the years of participation in the Forest Week campaign in Belarus, the employees of the CIS Executive Committee have planted trees on more than 28 hectares, First Deputy Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee - CIS Executive Secretary Viktor Guminsky told the media, BelTA has learned. “It has become a good tradition when the multinational team of the CIS Executive Committee tak...

Brest Oblast to plant over 2m trees during Forest Week campaign An archive photo BREST, 2 April (BelTA) – More than two million trees will be planted in Brest Oblast during the Forest Week nationwide campaign to be held on 3-10 April, Deputy Head for Ideology at the Brest State Forestry Production Association Ilya Shpak told BelTA. A total of 331 land plots covering an area of ​​more than 403 hectares will be landscaped. Planting material has been prepared; these are mostly seedlings of p...