Forests – GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF TAJIKISTAN

GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF TAJIKISTAN

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Apr

Land & Ecosystems

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Forest Restoration: Sapling Experiments

Across Tajikistan’s mountain slopes, where Soviet-era maps once painted dense green for juniper and walnut forests, the color has faded. What remains is a patchwork of scrub, stumps, and gullies. Yet in recent years, small rectangles of green have begun to return—sapling nurseries, fenced plots, and reforestation experiments that test how trees might reclaim the
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Jul

Land & Ecosystems

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Forests and Deforestation: The Vanishing Green

The forest in Tajikistan is never far, though its presence is often overlooked. Scattered across valleys, clinging to slopes, lining rivers with narrow bands of green, these woodlands are fragile fragments of what once covered more. In the Hissar range, walnut trees shade villages, their nuts gathered in baskets by children each autumn. In Sughd,
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