South Korea's forest recovery: 10 billion trees and the science of survival
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Between the 1960s and 1980s, South Korea planted more than 10 billion trees on degraded forestland, raising standing wood volume per hectare to 29 times its 1953 level by 2020. A 2026 study of 9,619 archival records reveals the success came not from planting alone but from repeated inspections of seedling survival, village participation in nurseries and protection, and replacing heating fuel with coal briquettes to reduce forest cutting pressure.
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