ENVIRO WATCH:Peru to 're-grow forests'

Lima-Peru has launched an ambitious drive to re-grow millions of hectares of jungle and forests laid bare by illegal logging,pollution and slash-and-burn farming,officials said on Thursday.
The immediate goal is to reforest more than 100 000 square kilometres(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."The importance of managed forests is that they are fully exploitable,compared to natural forests which, when completely uprooted,would cause the destruction of the ecosystem,"said Angeles.
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