Eucalyptus and carob saplings are planted near the forest of Kufranjah, north of Jordan’s capital Amman, part of a reforestation effort that aims to reach 10 million trees in 10 years. — AFP: On a bare hill in Jordan’s verdant Ajloun region, dozens of people plant saplings as part of a reforestation effort that aims to reach 10 million trees in 10 years.
Forests make up only 1% of the desert kingdom’s territory, according to the agriculture ministry, though Jordan also has an estimated 23 million orchard trees, half of them olives. “I was born here and I can tell you that if you plant cypress trees, eucalypts, olives, carob or oak, they will grow on their own,“ the man in his 70s said, wearing a traditional red-and-while keffiyeh scarf.
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