Ulaanbaatar
The Trees Planted in the Tuv Aimag Exceeded One Million
One Billion Trees
Ulaanbaatar, January 31 /MONTSAME/. According to the President’s Decree No. 58 on
the “One Billion Trees” national campaign, Tuv aimag decided to plant 20
million trees throughout the aimag. For that reason, more than 1,172,282 trees,
shrubs, and bushes have already been planted by the end of 2022.
In the previous year,
1364 enterprises, and 8468 individuals participated in the national campaign to
plant trees in Tuv aimag. Protected green areas of a size of one hectare are
established in each 11 soums to increase the green spaces and reduce
desertification and land degradation.
As a result of
planting 110039 trees, shrubs, and bushes in the surrounding area of households
and enterprises, the green space area was increased by 32.9
hectares.
More than 78.8 percent
of Tuv aimag’s area was affected by desertification, of which 6.1 percent is classified
as the extremely severe desertification, 21.8 percent is severe
desertification, and 24.4 percent is moderate desertification.
