Afforestation and reforestation national campaign, including urban forests

The investment aims to create new forests in areas vulnerable to climate change through land identification and assessment, financing of afforestation, plantation care, increase of the forest vegetation along communication routes and within urban agglomerations (urban forests including mini-forests) around municipalities and between fields with agricultural crops, as well as other protective forest curtain categories.

The investment will afforest or reforest a total of 56,700 ha of new areas and create a total of 3,150,000 m2 of new areas of urban forests, in compliance with the legal requirements laid down in the National Forest Strategy.

The call for applications was launched, the submission of projects is ongoing and several contracts have been already signed. 

The implementation of the investment shall be completed by 30 June 2026.

More information can be found on the project webpage here and here, and on social media here.