Activities on the site include cleaning the beach (mostly material left by a former tourist industry infrastructure), mangrove restoration and afforestation.

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Through afforestation, reforestation and cutting down agricultural emissions, by one estimate, carbon dioxide equivalent to 40 parts per million could be extracted from the atmosphere by 2050.

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For example, expanded credits for forestry-based offsets, including reforestation, afforestation and avoided deforestation, would give the rural poor a critical source of income to manage and sustain their landscapes.

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His writings inspired other figures, such as John Ruskin and Beatrix Potter, to take up the role of defender and to protest against reservoirs, afforestation and, more recently, wind farms.

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There will also be limited re-afforestation.

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