{"id":19196,"date":"2024-03-21T06:58:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=19196"},"modified":"2024-03-21T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T07:22:13","slug":"34-of-afghanistans-forests-lost-in-the-last-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/03\/34-of-afghanistans-forests-lost-in-the-last-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"34% of Afghanistan&#8217;s forests lost in the last 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL ( SW) &#8211; The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan has stated that it has planted 23 million trees in Afghanistan in the last decade in cooperation with its partners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, on the occasion of World Forest Day, WFP said that planting trees protects the soil and helps thousands of families to have healthy food and earn income by selling its fruit.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has announced that Afghanistan lost 1 million and 78 thousand hectares of forests and woodlands.<\/p>\n<p>This organization wrote in its X that the forests in Afghanistan have been &#8220;horribly&#8221; affected by 40 years of war and neglect, and Afghanistan has lost 34% of its forests in the last 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly named March 21 as World Forest Day in order to protect and raise awareness of the role and place of forests.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL ( SW) &#8211; The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan has stated that it has planted 23 million trees in Afghanistan in the last decade in cooperation with its partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,30,896,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-environment","category-nature","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":373,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19216,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196\/revisions\/19216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}