Jeonnam Province, creating a "Forest of Friendship" in Mongolia to prevent desertification and dust storms.
Published 2025년 9월 4일
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(Muan=Yonhap News) Reporter Hyeong Min-woo = On the 4th, the South Jeolla Province, together with the Mongolian Forestry Administration, held an event to create a Friendship Forest in response to the climate crisis at the Han-Mongolia Green Belt project site in Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur National Park, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
The tree-planting event was attended by approximately 50 people, including Governor Kim Young-rok of South Jeolla Province, Mongolian Forestry Administration Director O Yun-sana, Han-Mongolia Green Belt Project Director Lee Jong-geun, and 30 members of the Youth Expedition Team, which consists of civil servants from South Jeolla Province with a rank of 7 or lower.
They planted 1,000 three-year-old seedlings of Siberian larch and birch, which grow well in the hot, dry climate and poor soil of the region.
The trees were planted in the "Public-Private Partnership Participatory Forest" area being established by the Han-Mongolia Green Belt Project, where the Mongolian government provided the land and the Korean Forestry Administration built the infrastructure with public funds.
Thirteen local governments and private companies, including the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, E-Mart, and IBK Industrial Bank, are supporting the anti-desertification activities as part of their environmental, social, and transparent management (ESG) activities in the "Public-Private Partnership Participatory Forest."
The Han-Mongolia Green Belt Project, which participated in the event, is an inter-governmental cooperation organization established through collaboration between the Korean Forestry Administration and the Mongolian Ministry of Environment and Tourism, and is promoting forest restoration and pilot projects for preventing forest fires.
Mongolia has set a national goal of planting 1 billion trees by 2030 and is spending more than 1% of its GDP annually on forest restoration movements in desertified areas.
Governor Kim Young-rok said, "The tree-planting event is a valuable effort for South Jeolla Province to join the global task of overcoming the climate crisis and preventing desertification," and added, "Just as we created a Jeolla Province garden in New York last year to share our traditional garden culture with the world, this tree-planting event will also serve as an exemplary case of achieving carbon neutrality through international cooperation."
The tree-planting event was attended by approximately 50 people, including Governor Kim Young-rok of South Jeolla Province, Mongolian Forestry Administration Director O Yun-sana, Han-Mongolia Green Belt Project Director Lee Jong-geun, and 30 members of the Youth Expedition Team, which consists of civil servants from South Jeolla Province with a rank of 7 or lower.
They planted 1,000 three-year-old seedlings of Siberian larch and birch, which grow well in the hot, dry climate and poor soil of the region.
The trees were planted in the "Public-Private Partnership Participatory Forest" area being established by the Han-Mongolia Green Belt Project, where the Mongolian government provided the land and the Korean Forestry Administration built the infrastructure with public funds.
Thirteen local governments and private companies, including the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, E-Mart, and IBK Industrial Bank, are supporting the anti-desertification activities as part of their environmental, social, and transparent management (ESG) activities in the "Public-Private Partnership Participatory Forest."
The Han-Mongolia Green Belt Project, which participated in the event, is an inter-governmental cooperation organization established through collaboration between the Korean Forestry Administration and the Mongolian Ministry of Environment and Tourism, and is promoting forest restoration and pilot projects for preventing forest fires.
Mongolia has set a national goal of planting 1 billion trees by 2030 and is spending more than 1% of its GDP annually on forest restoration movements in desertified areas.
Governor Kim Young-rok said, "The tree-planting event is a valuable effort for South Jeolla Province to join the global task of overcoming the climate crisis and preventing desertification," and added, "Just as we created a Jeolla Province garden in New York last year to share our traditional garden culture with the world, this tree-planting event will also serve as an exemplary case of achieving carbon neutrality through international cooperation."
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(Muan=Yonhap News) Reporter Hyeong Min-woo = On the 4th, the South Jeolla Province, together with the Mongolian Forestry Administration, held an event to create a Friendship Forest in response to the climate crisis at the Han-Mongolia Green Belt project site in Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur National Park, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The tree-planting event was attended by approximately 50 people, including Governor Kim Young-rok of South Jeolla Province, Mongolian Forestry Administration Director O Yun-sana, Han-Mongolia Green Belt Project Director Lee Jong-geun, and 30 members of the Youth Expedition Team, which consists of civil servants from South Jeolla Province with a rank of 7 or lower. They planted 1,000 three-year-old seedlings of Siberian larch and birch, which grow well in the hot, dry climate and poor soil of the region. The trees were planted in the "Public-Private Partnership Participatory Forest" area being established by the Han-Mongolia Green Belt Project, where the Mongolian ...
Source: Yna
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