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Fri 03 Mar 2010Conference to be told of benefits of afforestation
DELEGATES TO a conference today will be told by the Society of Irish Foresters, the professional body of foresters in Ireland, that with only 10 per cent of land area under forest, Ireland has huge scope to plant more trees.
In addition to providing climate-change benefits by locking up carbon, forests also provide rural employment and other significant economic and environmental benefits.
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