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‘Over 3,000 dunums planted with forest trees in 2012’
Jan 14,2014 - Last updated at Jan 14,2014
AMMAN — More than 3,000 dunums were planted with forest trees during 2012, according to the Department of Statistics (DoS), which indicated that forests in Jordan occupy 821,000 dunums of the country’s terrain.
A DoS report released on Tuesday on the occasion of Arbour Day said that there were over 23 million trees in Jordan by the year 2012.
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