Ukraine Planted 240 Million Trees in 2021
Another 1 billion trees are planned to be planted over the next three years.
In 2021, the State Forest Resources Agency planted 240 million trees.
59.5 million of the 240 million trees were planted as part of the presidential Green Country program to plant 1 billion trees over three years, which started in the summer of 2021.
Yuriy Bolokhovets
Head of the State Forest Resources AgencyThis year, enterprises subordinate to the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine planted 240 million seedlings and saplings. In addition, about 9 million woody plants were planted on the lands of other forest users.
In Zhytomyr region, 51 million trees were planted, in Rivne region 29.5 million, in Volyn region 23.3 million, and in Chernihiv region 15.6 million.
In forest-steppe regions, 66.5 million trees were planted, in particular almost 20 million in Kyiv region, almost 10 million each in Poltava and Sumy regions, 8.2 million in Cherkasy region, 6.2 million in Kharkiv region, 5.2 million in Vinnytsia region, 4.4 million in Ternopil region, and 3.7 million in Khmelnytskyi region.
In addition, in the steppe regions of the country, foresters planted 21.3 million trees, in particular 6.6 million in Luhansk region, 4.4 million in Zaporizhzhia region, 3.8 million in Kirovohrad region, and 2.7 million in Kherson region.
In 2021, 30.3 million trees were planted in the Carpathians, in particular 15.1 million in Zakarpattia region, 8.1 million in Lviv region, and 3.5 million each in Chernivtsi and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
For 2022, this figure is planned to be increased by a quarter, to 300 million trees.
Tree planting is needed to minimize the consequences of global climate change, create shelterbelts to protect against dust storms, and increase the country's forest cover from the current 15.9% to the minimum required 20%.
In June 2021, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on implementing the Green Country project to increase the number of forests in Ukraine.
The goal of the project is to increase the forest area by 1 million hectares over 10 years. In addition, 1 billion trees are planned to be planted over the next three years.
The State Forest Resources Agency believes that planting 1 billion new trees over three years under the Green Country program is entirely realistic. Currently, the plan is 6% complete.
The agency explains that the 6% completion of the presidential program plan is due to the fact that only the first planting under the program has taken place, in the autumn. The autumn planting covers only 10% of the annual plan, while the remaining 90% falls in the spring.
The first large-scale planting of Green Country is due to take place in spring 2022.
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