Reforestation

Reforestation is the practice of restoring previously existing forests and woodlands that have been destroyed or damaged. The prior forest destruction might have happened through deforestation, clearcutting or wildfires. Three important purposes of reforestation programs are for harvesting of wood, for climate change mitigation, and for ecosystem and habitat restoration purposes.

One method of reforestation is to establish tree plantations, also called plantation forests.
They cover about 131 million ha worldwide, which is 3% of the global forest area and 45% of the total area of planted forests.

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