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Peru Launches Drive To Regrow Lost Forests And Jungles source: Terra Daily | Jul 20, 07 | submitted by Ryan

Lima, Peru - Peru has launched an ambitious drive to regrow millions of hectares (acres) of jungle and forests laid bare by illegal logging, pollution and slash-and-burn farming, officials said Thursday. The immediate goal is to reforest more than 100,000 square kilometers (the size of South Korea) of forest that have been devastated these past 40 years, said National Institute of Natural Resources (Inrena) president Roberto Angeles.

Inrena has begun a massive planting program in Peru's Amazon jungle basin, along the Pacific coastline and in the Andes highlands with a variety of trees including eucalyptus, pine, cypress, walnut, cedar, alder, ash and poplar.

In mahogany saplings alone, the institute plans to plant one million in the next two years.

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