Rae's Senate comments begin a debate on peatland forestry but clarification and education are needed to avoid a simplistic ...

In contrast, afforestation means creating forest where ... In Africa, misclassification of grassland landscapes, which can include some trees but aren’t forests, means that many countries ...

China completed 125 million mu (8.33 million hectares) of afforestation and the improvement on grassland, and reclaimed desertified land and rocky desertification of land that amounted to 28.57 ...

In Africa alone, grasslands and savannas totalling an ... planting trees in rangelands that naturally have low tree cover is afforestation. This often fails because they don’t have enough ...

Projects instead focused on afforestation – planting trees where they didn’t previously occur – regardless of vegetation type. This threatens the biodiversity of grasslands and savannas ...

In order to reduce emissions, the state is now considering a number of options, including converting peatland to grassland, the afforestation of arable and grassland, building biogas plants, and ...

In recent years, an afforestation project in the mountains ... a research fellow at the Lhasa Forestry and Grassland Bureau, told reporters on Wednesday. Upon completion of the project, it is ...

China has achieved 40 million mu (2.67 million hectares) of afforestation and grass planting over the past 12 months under its major greening program, official data showed. This was reported by The ...

according to the city's bureau of forestry and grassland. Once the afforestation project is completed in 2030, the area is expected to generate an annual ecological value of more than 1.4 billion ...

These trees date back as much as three centuries, and no afforestation can replace the ... The forest department, however, insists that the grassland conversion is essential for tiger conservation.