Plant life-form

It is the first time a tree has been found in such good condition, complete with branches and roots, since excavations began in 1995

A 70-year-old man living in the southeastern province of Mardin has turned a dumpsite into a forest by planting thousands of saplings.

Şeyhmus Erginoğlu has planted a total of 14,000 trees, including 7,000 pine trees and 3,000 plane trees, in the idle areas of Mardin for 25 years, making the city green where the continental climate prevails.

Vandals have cut off 29 of the 240 newly planted trees in Sofia's Ring Road, Nova TV reported. The acacia seedlings were planted last month. The trees were cut low to the ground.

Authorities in Istanbul have taken measures to prevent illegal cutting down of pine trees ahead of New Year’s Eve, with officials carrying out extensive controls in forested areas for the past 15 days to protect the trees.

150 new trees, including 100 squids, 30 pine trees and fir trees and 20 euodias, are planted at another massive forestation in Lauta Park in Plovdiv, the municipal press reported.

Nearly 80 decares will reach the biggest operation of this kind in the last decade of the Lauta extension, said the mayor of Trakia district Kostadin Dimitrov.

Over 120 000 trees will be planted near Sofia's quarter Suhodol, reports Mediapool. 

The new forest in Sofia should be plantet there and the Municipality of Sofia have already named their initiative. The planting of the first part of the plants starts this Saturday at 11 am, the local administration said.

The tree was planted by the Yamaki family in 1625. When the USAF dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima, the Yamaki family lived just two miles from ground zero. Miraculously both the family and the tree survived the explosion that killed around 140.000 people.

BELGRADE - Wine grape varieties are cultivated on 17,483 hectares in Serbia, accounting for around 75.7 percent of vineyard land, show the figures from the specialised publication The Vine-Growing Atlas.

Grapes are produced by 80,341 farms - 12.7 percent of the total number of farms in Serbia - say the figures released by the national statistical office.