Afforestation

Through sustainable land management practices, afforestation initiatives, and community engagement programs, Algeria has made significant strides in reversing desertification trends.

Much might be said of the condition of the timber in the reserves, as typified in this locality, of possible means for its conservation and regulated use, and of the problems of afforestation, and of sylviculture generally, which are involved in the proper management of the reserves.

While, however, the military critic from Britain might concur in this, he might tell us that the afforestation of such a wilderness as is Natal, for instance, is too large an undertaking for practical consideration.

At first the Japanese, too, were careless in this respect, for the supply of camphor trees seemed practically limitless, but the great increase in the demand for the product in late years has made scientific afforestation necessary.

There are very few native trees in Iceland, primarily downy birch and rowan, but afforestation efforts are underway.