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Synonyms

forestation

American  
[fawr-uh-stay-shuhn, for-] / ˌfɔr əˈsteɪ ʃən, ˌfɒr- /

noun

  1. the planting of forests.


forestation British  
/ ˌfɒrɪˈsteɪʃən /

noun

  1. the planting of trees over a wide area

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of forestation

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; forest + -ation


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It also would ramp up research into wildfire mitigation technologies and change some forestation treatments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

Yin's empirical research indicates that this finding could be representative of the entire forestation sector.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2024

Here abundant rain, adequate forestation, and a host of wildlife provided conditions that could support ever- growing populations over long periods of time.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

That compares with 24% in neighbouring India and 14.5% in Bangladesh, and the previous government announced a mass forestation programme that envisaged planting 10 billion trees between 2019 and 2023.

From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2022

We have irrigation, dry farming, forestation of sandhills and the like; also conservation of soil fertility, and the conservation of lands.

From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress

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