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Monday, 01 October 2007 09:38 |
 Mongolia has joined with three
other countries to fight off its encroaching desert.
Working with Korea, Japan,
and China, Mongolia will be planting trees in 3,000 hectares, or roughly
7,000 acres, of Mongolian desert to stave off the expanding desert.
The participating countries
have financed the $10 million project.
The forestry ministries of
the four countries have formed an organization for the prevention of
desertification in the Central Asian region called the Northeast Asia
Forest Network.
According to the Northeast
Asia Forest Network, more than 14 million acres of land are overrun
by desert each year affecting some 1.2 billion people.
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