afforestation
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Domestically, there have been afforestation plans to restore natural flood barriers.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025
The researchers set out to calculate how much land area of afforestation would be needed to compensate for these emissions by 2050.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
Since at least the early 20th century, the rhetoric behind the afforestation push in Israel/Palestine has implied that no existing human settlements or agriculture his been displaced or disrupted.
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2024
Although some tree plantations involve reforestation of degraded land, in many cases they involve afforestation -- planting forests in undegraded and previously unforested regions such as grasslands.
From Science Daily • Oct. 3, 2023
Irrigation and afforestation are both necessary for the successful development of the West.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
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