On June 14, 2017, a workshop on forest landscape restoration took place in Pyongyang, co-organized by the Ministry of Land and Environment Planning (MoLEP), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea. Transcending afforestation, forest landscape restoration is a more comprehensive way of looking at the rehabilitation of landscapes, including forests, water and non-forested areas. In North Korea, where after decades of deforestation currently a campaign for re-forestation is underways, this is very important. For example, many small waterways are completely lacking any tree cover, leading to evaporation of water as well as to uninhibited inflow of soil, i.e. erosion, and less clean water.
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