Under the scheme, non-native trees planted in the 18th and 19th centuries will be replaced with native species.
In 2010 the Welsh Assembly declared it wanted 100, 000 hectares (247, 000 acres) of trees planted over 20 years.
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From here, goats and trekkers climb onto Jebel Toubkal's hunched shoulders, which are freckled with pine trees planted in a reforestation initiative.
Employees (and sometimes their kids as well) have cleaned up New Hampshire beaches, planted trees were planted in Germany and Thailand, improved urban spaces improved in Spain, picked up rubbish picked up in Japan, and planted, weeded and fertilized a field of tree seedlings in China.
At the beginning of the rains, both food crops and leguminous trees are planted.
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The bushy pine and Norway spruce trees I planted serve as a place to build nests.
That means giving a voice to local communities and ensuring that trees are planted as well as felled.
By July, 30 apple, pear, cherry and plum trees were planted with help from professional arborists at the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation.
Two of the persimmon trees are planted at the top terrace, along with a hardy kiwi vine dangling from the deck above.
The Ring is a circle of beech trees, planted on a hilltop that had been the site of Bronze Age and Iron Age fortifications, and a Roman temple.
In Bangladesh, villagers build raised earth mounds the size of football pitches, on which trees are planted and food and water is stored: in an emergency, they and their animals can retreat to this man-made higher ground.
Some hundred and fifty years ago, one of the princes had ridden that way, going to a wedding or a funeral in this remote district, felt hot, and ordered that rosewood trees be planted to shade the passersby.
Additionally, only those fans will be able to adopt one of the one million trees being planted on behalf of Earth Day and receive a virtual hometree they can locate on a map to see where it's actually planted.
Charrouf says it's for all these reasons that 60, 000 new trees are now planted each year.
An additional 1 million trees will be planted this year as well as in 2014 and 2015.
Newly planted trees, meanwhile, are unable to absorb that carbon at the same rate as older trees.
The Forestry Commission has spent six months clearing the area ready for 60, 000 new trees to be planted.
Newly planted trees, for instance, need several years to mature before they begin absorbing significant amounts of carbon dioxide.
More than 800, 000 Maya nut trees have been planted for rain forest conservation.
Thousands of trees will be planted on a Cumbrian fell in a scheme to boost numbers of an endangered bird.
One million trees will be planted in Uganda to sustain an area of tropical forest in Africa the size of Wales.
Opponents say that over 1m hectares (2.5m acres) of eucalyptus trees must be planted to supply the mills, threatening other local flora.
Those areas reflect as much as 90% of the sun's light, whereas if you planted trees there they would reflect only about 10%.
The space will also see trees and flowers planted and the installation of allotment boxes, where local residents and businesses can plant vegetables.
Puppetry continues to be one of the fastest growing elements in the Fringe programme with a range of shows from One Eye Gone to The Man Who Planted Trees.
They even planted trees to cut dust that flows in from the Gobi Desert, but today, today was one of the worst days we've seen in the week we've been here.
Embrapa's latest trick is something called forest, agriculture and livestock integration: the fields are used alternately for crops and livestock but threads of trees are also planted in between the fields, where cattle can forage.
Intel's barking up all kinds of trees (ones planted by Qualcomm, NVIDIA and ARM) with its Moorestown Atom platform, and while it'll be quite some time before we see an Atom Inside sticker gracing the face of a smartphone, the company's making sure the world sees what it has ramped up so far with reference builds here in Taipei.
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