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Indonesia's ambitious plan to reforest 2M ha annually
2014-12-05 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesias new government has ambitious reforestation plans. President Joko Widodos election campaign included a commitment to reforest 2 million hectares of degraded land annually. Depending on tree planting density, that requires some four billion tree seedlings to be grown, planted, and maintained, or about 20 trees for every Indonesian. Bold plans indeed. One challenge is that Indonesia has some 83 million hectares or 63 percent of its forest estate in deforested or degraded conditions....
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