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2007/1/19
The Moroccan government is planning to plant 27 million trees across the nation in 2007 within the framework of the campaign "planting for the nation," the government has announced.
This initiative is open to individuals and organizations from as diverse backgrounds as the civil society, the private and the public sectors, youth associations, schools, community groupings and municipalities, according to a statement released on Monday by the Moroccan high commission for water, forestry and for the fight against desertification.
The annual reforestation program undertaken by the commission will cover 35,000 hectares and will involve native tree species as well as new ones.
The program is hoping to reclaim forest areas, which have been destroyed, by concerted development plans by ensuring a balance between the demand for the exploitation of forest resources and the need to regenerate and reconstitute the forest ecosystem.
In order to satisfy the demand for forestry products, the high commission on average produces 40 million tree plants annually in tree nurseries spread across the country's major forestry zones. |
