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Destroyed Land

Yellow dust and fine particulate matter tell us that we are in the realm of desertification.
Desertification is a natural phenomenon, however, the current rate of desertification is 100 to 1000 times the natural rate.
On average, an area of soil the size of a soccer field is being lost every five seconds.

– World Food Organization ITPS, 2015 –

The entire nation is boiling in a heat wave. It’s not only South Korea. Countries in the northern hemisphere are suffering from killer heat thanks to an unprecedented heat dome phenomenon. Global warming and desertification are cited as the main causes of this phenomenon. Particularly, our country is suffering from midsummer heat waves, and spring and fall yellow dust and fine dust due to rapid desertification in China and Mongolia.

-Daily Good News 2018.08.07-

The devastated land at the origin of the yellow dust A desert that is spreading at the rate of 32 soccer fields a minute.The forests of Inner Mongolia were lush 2000 years ago, but indiscriminate overuse has turned them into deserts, becoming a source of yellow dust.The destruction of these soils has blurred the boundaries of deserts from Asia to Central Asia to the Middle East and North Africa, creating one giant desert and foreshadowing the emergence of an estimated 700 million desert refugees by 2030.

-UNCCD “Desertification” the invisible frontline-

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The Green Wall: Trees stopped deserts

After 14 years of planting and nurturing trees in a devastated desert, the land is recovering.

Established in 2002 to combat desertification, a common environmental problem between Korea and China, and to increase youth exchange, Green Corps has been planting trees in the Kubuchi Desert since 2006 and has planted about 10 million trees in an area of about 3,000 hectares.

-Source: Future Korea Weekly-

Gyeonggi-do and Future Forest are responding to the source of yellow dust in Northeast Asia through environmental partnerships. Gyeonggi-do has signed an agreement with China Youth League to plant trees in the Kubuchi Desert in Inner Mongolia to prevent desertification.

-Source: DailyGrid – –

Initiated in 2002 to address the common environmental issue of desertification between China and Korea, and to enhance youth exchange, the Earth-saving Green Volunteer Corps began afforestation activities in the Kubuqi Desert in 2006. Until now, about ten million trees have been planted in an area of approximately 3000 hectares.

-Source: Future Korea Weekly –

Gyeonggi Province and the corporation Future Forest are addressing the origin of yellow dust in Northeast Asia through Sino-Korean environmental cooperation. Gyeonggi Province has entered into an agreement with China’s Gongqing team to plant trees in the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia, China, among other efforts to prevent desertification through forestry industries.

Destroyed Land

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Destroyed Land

Future Forest

The Green Wall: Trees stopped deserts

Established in 2002 to combat desertification, a common environmental problem between Korea and China, and to increase youth exchange, Green Corps has been planting trees in the Kubuchi Desert since 2006 and has planted about 10 million trees in an area of about 3,000 hectares.

-Source: Future Korea Weekly-

Gyeonggi-do and Future Forest are responding to the source of yellow dust in Northeast Asia through environmental partnerships. Gyeonggi-do has signed an agreement with China Youth League to plant trees in the Kubuchi Desert in Inner Mongolia to prevent desertification.

-Source: DailyGrid – –

-Source: Future Korea Weekly –

-Source: Daily Grid –