File:American Aid Helps Lebanon Replant Its Cedar Forests.theora.ogv
American_Aid_Helps_Lebanon_Replant_Its_Cedar_Forests.theora.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 3 min 6 s, 640 × 360 pixels, 963 kbps overall, file size: 21.39 MB)
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English: SHOUF CEDAR RESERVE, LEBANON — The fragrant cedar forests of Lebanon were first recorded in the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, about 4,500 years ago.
But Lebanon’s once mighty cedar forests survive today only as pockets of scraggly trees on mountain sides. Now, there's a project to replant the ancient cedar forests. Lebanon’s government has set an ambitious goal of increasing the country’s forest cover by 50 percent by the year 2020. Going green Hisham Salman runs Lebanon's Association for Forests, Development and Conservation. He said the government’s “Green Lebanon” slogan wins support across religious and sectarian lines in this fractured land. “People who are living in the cities, they like this idea that Lebanon is a green country,” he said in an interview at a nursery in the Shouf Mountains. “They want to see it again green, so they like this idea - the planting of trees,” said Salman. |
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| Source | http://www.voanews.com/content/american_aid_helps_lebanon_replant_its_cedar_forests/1574227.html |
| Author | James Brooke |
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