A villager in the Getik River Valley with tree seedlings growing in a backyard plot. Photo by Adrineh Der-Boghossian via the Armenia Tree Project . The series of calamities — a massive earthquake, energy shortages, and military conflict — that hit the small Caucasus nation of Armenia in the late 1980s left much of its population uprooted and unemployed, and its environment impoverished as well. At the current rate of deforestation , the country c… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Reforestation Helps Revitalize Crisis-Stricken Armenia
