Uzbekistan: Afforestation a new approach to climate change in the Aral Sea
- Written by TCA
TASHKENT (TCA) — With the staggering disappearance of the Aral Sea, climate change has claimed one of its most devastating casualties. The Sea may be all but gone, but its local inhabitants are not. Back in 2018, the government of Uzbekistan launched a huge campaign to plant trees on the dried-up bed of the Aral Sea. To improve the ecological and socio-economic situation in the region, afforestation — the introduction of trees to an environment where none previously existed — serves as a potentially vital barrier to stabilize the soil from wind erosion and prevent the toxic sandstorms that have plagued Karakalpakstan with health problems, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Uzbekistan reported on August 24.
