“Restoring Degraded Forests Is an Important National Priority” – Karlo Amirgulashvili

Representatives of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture visited the Guria region to review ongoing and completed forest restoration and afforestation projects and assess the work carried out.

Forest restoration activities in Guria currently cover a total area of 702 hectares. In recent years, several successful projects have been implemented in the region, resulting in the planting of approximately 15,000 seedlings of various species, including species protected under Georgia’s Red List.

According to Karlo Amirgulashvili, Head of the Forest Policy Department at the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, restoring Georgia’s forests—particularly degraded forest areas—is one of the state’s key priorities.

“Over the past decade, work has been carried out across several thousand hectares, including measures to support natural regeneration and supplementary planting. Georgia has set a nationwide target of restoring approximately 52,000 hectares of forest by 2036, further underlining the strategic importance of forest restoration and afforestation. This will remain one of the Ministry’s key priorities in the coming years. In the weeks and months ahead, assessments of ongoing and planned forest restoration projects across Georgia’s regions will continue actively,” Karlo Amirgulashvili stated.

It should be noted that, over the past decade, forest restoration and afforestation measures have been implemented across more than 7,000 hectares nationwide.