By Sheena Thiruselvan | Communications Associate
Thank you for supporting the Tropical Reforestation Project, your gift is helping us restore deforested land in the Southern Cardamom Mountain Range! This vital program works to restore denuded forest through seed collection, nursery germination and propagation, soil enrichment and planting, post planting treatment to fight invasive grasses, and the replacement of weak plants in order to ensure forest growth over the next few years.
The Tropical Reforestation Program has been working to maintain the 733,000 trees that were planted over the last 5 years. 733 hectares (1,811 acres) of reforested land is maintained and kept healthy with soil enriching activities.
Many steps have been taken to improve soil quality and reforestation success of the Chi Phat, Andoung Teuk, and Road 48 reforestation sites. The reforestation and planting sites are areas of previously cleared out tropical forests. These areas experience flooding and sediment run-off during the rainy season, and are plagued by invasive weed species. In 2014, the Reforestation program planted rows in planting areas to improve pH levels and organic matter in the soil. Fibrous grass was grown throughout planting fields to protect the soil from heavy rains and erosion. Additionally, seedlings transferred to planting areas were planted in a method to recreate forest diversity with various tree species.
In 2014, 889,234 seedlings were collected from trees in surrounding forests. 728,998 seedlings were germinated in the Chi Phat shade net. From January through December, a total of 48,954 seedlings of 31 varieties were transferred from the Chi Phat nursery to the CADP nursery for Road 48 planting, 44,589 seedlings of 48 varieties were transferred to the Chi Phat planting field, and 5,820 seedlings were transferred from Chi Phat nursery to Sihanoukville planting field.
Thank you again, and we hope you’ll continue to support this important project!
By Sheena Thiruselvan | Commuicantions Associate
By Sheena Thiruselvan | Communications Associate
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