reforestation
noun
re·for·es·ta·tion
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Definition of reforestation
: the action of renewing forest cover (as by natural seeding or by the artificial planting of seeds or young trees)
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Her government is budgeting $55 million over five years for reforestation, land conservation and carbon-free transport projects to slash greenhouse gas emissions. — Liz Alderman, New York Times, "What Worries Iceland? A World Without Ice. It Is Preparing.," 9 Aug. 2019 This not only reduces the chances of reforestation. — The Economist, "The Amazon is approaching an irreversible tipping point," 1 Aug. 2019 Dan Ridley-Ellis, who studies wood at Edinburgh Napier University, tells Ann Ploszaski at The Guardian that reforestation of any scale can have immense benefits to nations like Ethiopia. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Ethiopia Plants 350 Million Trees in 12 Hours—a New Record," 30 July 2019 So optimizing the supply chain to cut down on food waste, while boosting yields with optimal varietals could allow more food to grow on the same amount of land, preserving more habitats for reforestation. — Matt Simon, WIRED, "We’re Eating This Planet to Death," 8 Aug. 2019 The bill also would prioritize large-scale forest management projects in California and Montana, such as the removal of dead and dying trees, and encourage the Forest Service to speed up restoration and reforestation efforts on burned land. — Matt Volz, The Denver Post, "Senators to introduce bipartisan wildfire bill," 1 Aug. 2019 According to Farm Africa, an organization working on reforestation efforts in East Africa and helping farmers out of poverty, less than 4% of Ethiopia's land is forested, compared to around 30% at the end of the 19th century. — Helen Regan, CNN, "Ethiopia plants more than 350 million trees in 12 hours," 30 July 2019 Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, an organization that advocates reforestation as a solution to global warming, is the brainchild of Jake's father David, a third-generation tree farmer. — NBC News, "Cloning giant redwoods could help combat climate change," 28 July 2019 That places a number of institutional hurdles in the path of effective reforestation. — Ian Willms, National Geographic, "Tree-planting programs can do more harm than good," 26 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'reforestation.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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reforestation
noun
English Language Learners Definition of reforestation
: the act of planting tree seeds or young trees in an area where there used to be a forest
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reforestation
noun
re·for·es·ta·tion
| \ ˌrē-ˌfȯr-ə-ˈstā-shən
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Kids Definition of reforestation
: the act of renewing forest growth by planting seeds or young trees