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Sun Jun 19, 2022, 08:49 PM Jun 2022

Successes in forest cooperation: Greenbelt Reforestation by the Republic of Korea

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Successes in forest cooperation: Greenbelt Reforestation by the Republic of Korea and Mongolia

Successes in forest cooperation: Greenbelt Reforestation by the Republic of Korea and Mongolia
AFoCO-EML
January 7, 2022

Far in the distance, a sight of greenery appears in the middle of the golden Gobi Desert in the southern part of Mongolia. It looks as if the area is a mirage in a mid of a desert. It is the reforested area covered with lush trees planted through one of the successfully implementing forestry projects in Mongolia.

That project is the Korea-Mongolia Greenbelt Reforestation Project initiated by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism of Mongolia (MET) and the Korea Forest Service (KFS) to mitigate desertification and climate change, and combat yellow dust and sandstorms in Mongolia. The project is being implemented in three phases since early 2006 in three soums (district) of two aimags (provinces), which are known as the areas where Asian Dust originates from.

The first phase of the project was initially implemented to support the action plan of Mongolia’s “Green Belt National Program” from 2007-2016 for ten years with the focus on building solid fundamentals for efficient afforestation measures to halt the desertification and land degradation. Main activities included building tree nurseries, conducting capacity-building trainings, and joint researches in Mongolia. The second phase of the bilateral reforestation project was implemented from 2017-2021 for five years and included establishing the urban forest, Mongolian-Korean Friendship Park in the 40-hectare area near the capital city – Ulaanbaatar. Looking ahead now, the third phase of the project will be implemented from 2022-2026 to introduce an advanced forest fire prevention control system from Korea, carry out research and training on agroforestry, and develop healing forests in Mongolia.

Throughout the project implementation period, more than 3,000 hectares of reforested land have been handed over to the Mongolian side step by step. Up until now, the project has successfully planted and grown drought-tolerant tree species including dwarf elm, salt cedar, poplar, pine, birch, willow, and saxaul trees at the target arid sites. The project’s main result is the demonstration of the possibility of planting trees and conducting reforestation even in harsh conditions, where deserted areas are located.

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