reforestation
YESTERDAY marked 151 years of the US planting trees for Arbor Day for which business leaders, politicians, YouTubers and celebrities called for the planting of millions, billions or even trillions of trees to slow climate change.
South Africa celebrates Arbor Week in the first week of September, which is also heritage month. The department of forestry, fisheries and the environment, as the custodian of forestry in South Africa, is responsible for the campaign.
But not just any tree will do.
As ecologists who study forest restoration, we know that trees store carbon, provide habitat for animals and plants, prevent
