{"id":372467,"date":"2024-08-19T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=372467"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:49:40","slug":"mauritania-restores-vegetation-via-aerial-seeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/mauritania-restores-vegetation-via-aerial-seeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritania restores vegetation via aerial seeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Mauritania conducted earlier this month its 2024 national aerial seeding campaign, which aims to restore vegetation cover, stabilize sand dunes and sustainably protect lands, state news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMI<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials attending this year\u2019s campaign launch explained that deserts and barren soils occupy most of the country\u2019s surface area, and forests and other wood resources decreased so much that if nothing is done now, this situation risks becoming irreversible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aerial seeding is a technique of sowing seeds by spraying them through aircraft. The Arab country has conduct it for some years now, reaping good results<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Joint effort<\/strong> in Mauritania<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The five-day operation was launched on August 8 at the headquarters of the Air Force General Staff Command at Nouakchott Oumtounsi International Airport. It is organized in collaboration between the Ministries of Environment and Sustainable Development, Defense, and the Air Force General Staff Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/mauritania-heads-african-union-delegation-to-g20\/\">Mauritania heads African Union delegation to G20<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-372450\">\u00a9John Wessels\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab country launched seeding operations to expand vegetation cover. Most part of the country\u2019s surface area is occupied by deserts and barren soils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":372450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[50606,3850,50604,2012,50323,28906,50605],"class_list":{"0":"post-372467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sustainability","8":"tag-aerial-seeding","9":"tag-desert","10":"tag-dune-stabilization","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-mauritania-2","13":"tag-meio-ambiente-en","14":"tag-vegetation-cover"},"wps_subtitle":"The Arab country launched seeding operations to expand vegetation cover. Most part of the country\u2019s surface area is occupied by deserts and barren soils.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}