Afforestation
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Afforestation is the process of converting open land into a forest by planting trees or their seeds. The term may also be applied to the legal conversion of land into the status of royal forest.
Since the industrial revolution many countries have experienced centuries of deforestation, and governments and Non-governmental organisations (NGO's) directly engage in programs of reafforestation (the restocking of existing forests and woodlands which have been depleted, with native tree stock) and also in supporting private and semi-private enterprise in programs of afforestation (the planting of renewable tree stocks for harvesting as lumber or firewood).
Aside from commercial purposes, afforestation is also undertaken by government and other authorities to create recreational woodland.
