A “Taiwan friendship forest” was inaugurated in Kahramanmaras Province, southeastern Turkey with the planting of 30,000 seedlings on Sunday to symbolize the Taiwan-Turkey partnership in the fight against global warming.

Volkan Huang (???), Taiwan’s representative to Turkey, and Celalettin Guvenc, head of the internal affairs committee under the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, jointly presided over a ceremony which saw the planting of 30,000 seedlings of Pinus brutia, a species of pine native to the eastern Mediterranean region that is commonly known as the Turkish pine, on a 20-hectare plot of land that was destroyed by wild fires, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Mission in Ankara said in a statement.

“We planted the seedlings of Pinus brutia in the ‘Taiwan friendship forest’ to highlight the partnership between the two countries in combating global warming and slash carbon emissions,” Huang was quoted as saying while addressing the ceremony.

“Pinus brutia is native to Turkey, and 30,000 Turkish pine trees are expected to absorb around 360,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide per year,” he said.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel