Steve embarked on InnovGreen, a social enterprise that invests in forest planting in Vietnam, while Jenny rekindled an interest in writing and publishing.
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For example, Mitsui announced recently that it has acquired two Australian forestry companies: Great Southern Timber Holdings, which specializes in forest planting, and Hansol, a company that processes and exports wood chips.
Sustaining existing forest cover, planting new trees and better management of land use is also suggested as a means to slow global warming.
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GARCIA-NAVARRO: His economic proposals, and that is the issue that most Mexicans are interested in, revolve around the campaign of public spending, a new overland shipping route that will rival the Panama Canal, high-speed railways connecting cities and the planting of a million acres of furniture-grade forest will provide the jobs.
Existing funding is already going to The NHS Forest to plant 65, 000 trees across 25 sites in this planting season.
Biswajit Banerjee, the divisional forest officer, admits that the rocky soil is of little use for planting trees.
The controversial recent revisions to the Forest Code, the national law, may yet slow the demand for planting, as they relax the constraints on landowners.
"A part of the forest is given to the farmer, and they are in charge of the planting, cutting, and transporting of this wood, " he says.
Heatley, the ecologist, said that "not one" of the energy companies drilling in the area has a long-term restoration plan for sensitive deep-forest environments, and that permits usually require only minimal restoration, such as planting grasses.
White Rose Forest - a volunteer-led initiative set up to improve the West Yorkshire landscape by planting trees - has expanded into North Yorkshire.
So slowly that after a century of tree planting, the locals tell you that if you do get lost in an Icelandic forest all you have to do is stand up.
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