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4-Country Project Against Desertification Begins

Korea, Japan, China and Mongolia have come together in a US$10 million project to contain the spread of deserts. The forestry ministries of the four countries have formed a cooperative body for the prevention of desertification in the Central Asian region called the Northeast Asia Forest Network. The network will be planting trees in 3,000 hectares or roughly 7,000 acres of Mongolian desert area for the next ten years as its first project. Every year, more than 6 million hectares, or 14 million acres of land turn into deserts and over 1.2 billion people around the world suffer from its consequences.

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