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reforestation
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thumb|A forest, six years after reforestation efforts in Panama. thumb|Reforestation in progress: Direct-sowing of seed in a burned area (after a wildfire) in the [[Idaho Panhandle National Forest, United States.]] 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. On
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- Definition
- Purposes
- Harvesting of wood
- Climate change mitigation
- Ecosystem restoration
- Methods
- Forest plantations
- Using existing trees and roots
- Financial incentives
- Challenges
- Competition with other land uses and displacement risk
- Political and economic challenges
- Biodiversity loss
- Stored carbon being released
- Implementation challenges
- By country
- Asia
- China
- India
- Japan
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Europe
- Armenia
- Croatia
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- Middle East
- Israel
- Lebanon
- Turkey
- North America
- Canada
- United States
- Latin America
- Bolivia
- Costa Rica
- Peru
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Nigeria
- Organizations and programs
- See also
- References
thumb|A forest, six years after reforestation efforts in Panama. thumb|Reforestation in progress: Direct-sowing of seed in a burned area (after a wildfire) in the [[Idaho Panhandle National Forest, United States.]] 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.
Globally, planted forests increased from 4.1% to 7.0% of the total forest area between 1990 and 2015. Plantation forests made up 280 million ha (hectare) in 2015, an increase of about 40 million ha in the previous ten years. Of the planted forests worldwide, 18% of that area consists of exotic or introduced species while the rest consist of species native to the country where they are planted.