Million Tree Campaign in Palestine | The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature
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Million Tree Campaign in Palestine

Within the Second MTC, APN collaborated with the Palestinian Agricultural Farmers Union on the Seedlings of the Nation (Ashtal al Watan) project that is funded by the Welfare Association, APN launched the project on the 27th of December in 2013 by cultivating 300 olive trees in the territory belonging to more than 25 families in the town of Makhrour.

The town is located near Route 60, a road built primarily on the territory of the town of Beit Jala, which is threatened with confiscation by the Israeli army.More than 400 volunteers from Beit Jala and other towns in the West Bank, members of the Stop the Wall Campaign, and a coalition of Palestinians from the lands occupied in 1948 participated in the project.