reforest
The company promotes sustainable agriculture and reforestation in the region.
The organization is connecting protected areas for pandas through reforestation.
They have planted more than 21,000 trees in reforestation projects.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forestry
afforestation
agroforestry
arborist
brush
carbon sink
clearing
cut down
deforest
lumberjack
old growth
ranger
reafforest
slash-and-burn
the treeline
undercut
understorey
unforested
woodcutter
woodsy
woody

Examples of reforestation

reforestation
Acutely aware of the need for environmental preservation, a small number of villagers initiated a reforestation programme, but their first attempts were a failure.
This deforestation term is negative if the reforestation rate is higher than the deforestation rate.
Reforestation proceeded rapidly after the second world war, in which natural broad-leaved forests were replaced with coniferous plantations.
Expediting reforestation in tropical grasslands: distance and isolation from seed sources in plantations.
Subsequently, the government began consolidating the contracted timberlands, and raised taxes and fees from farmers in order to fund reforestation.
Here we will focus on the supply side, with emphasis on carbon-sequestration projects involving reforestation or afforestation.
The work can be used to infer the composition of past forest communities and to substantiate the selection of tree species for reforestation.
More information is needed about the vegetation composition of this forest and how the reforestation process can be improved.
Nevertheless, farmers did not expand their reforestation and forest management activities, because they were unconvinced that the government would sustain its policies.
That is the reason why conservation of the uppermost forest stands, as opposed to reforestation, should have a high priority.
Among the most common projects are road building, reforestation, and the installation of soil conservation measures or irrigation.
Clearly, any efforts towards reforestation will need to address their expected effect on water yield.
Regular propagation of local tropical trees species is important for successful reforestation.
However, the military elite did capture lucrative concessions in minerals, petroleum, timber, land, shipping, and reforestation projects.
To evaluate the causes of reforestation, it will be necessary to explore in greater detail the climate fluctuations of the past few millennia.
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