Afforestation activities
30 June 2026: Details about urban planting activities are currently being updated.
We are doing everything possible to complete the process as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
Interactive map of planting locations and forest cover by county in Romania
The afforestation activities carried out by the Adopt a Tree programme aim to create additional forests and forest shelterbelts, meaning new forests, rather than restoring previously forested areas. They are intended to address environmental and social problems affecting communities in southern Romania, particularly in the counties with the greatest forest deficit.
Objective: establishment of a land rehabilitation area
Planted area: 9.5 ha
First planting: 2022
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: establishment of a land rehabilitation area
Planted area: 5.6 ha
First planting: 2022
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: establishment of a land rehabilitation area
Planted area: 3.8 ha
First planting: 2022
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of a protective forest shelterbelt and land rehabilitation areas
Planted area: 7.36 ha
First planting: Spring 2026
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: establishment of a land rehabilitation area
Planted area: 1.14 ha
First planting: 2023
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: establishment of a land rehabilitation area
Planted area: 7.15 ha
First planting: 2023
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: establishment of a land rehabilitation area
Planted area: 8.8 ha
First planting: 2021
Current status: Temporarily suspended
Objective: establishment of a land rehabilitation area
Planted area: 40 ha
First planting: 2020
Current status: replacement and maintenance work
Objective: establishment of a land rehabilitation area
Planted area: 4 ha
First planting: 2021
Current status: replacement and maintenance work
Objective: establishment of a land rehabilitation area
Suprafață plantată: 11,4 ha
First planting: 2020
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of a forest shelterbelt
Planted area: 2 ha
First planting: 2019
Current status: Established forest stand
Objective: Establishment of a forest shelterbelt
Planted area: 3.3 ha
First planting: 2019
Current status: Established forest stand
Objective: Establishment of a forest shelterbelt
Planted area: 9.5 ha
First planting: 2017
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Rehabilitation of a forest shelterbelt
Planted area: 3 ha
First planting: 2016
Current status: Temporarily suspended
Objective: Establishment of a land rehabilitation area on degraded land
Planted area: 4.83 ha
First planting: 2022
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of a forest shelterbelt
Planted area: 6/ha
First planting: 2022
Current status: Temporarily suspended
Objective: Establishment of degraded land rehabilitation areas
Planted area: 24.62 ha
First planting: 2022
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of an agricultural forest shelterbelt
Planted area: 28.5 ha
First planting: 2022
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of a protective forest shelterbelt
Planted area: 2.68 ha
First planting: 2023
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of protective forest shelterbelts and land rehabilitation areas
Planted area: 41.2 ha
First planting: 2024
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of land rehabilitation areas on degraded land and protective forest shelterbelts
Planted area: 7.51 ha
First planting: 2024
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of a protective forest shelterbelt
Planted area: 6.6 ha
First planting: Autumn 2024
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of a protective forest shelterbelt
Planted area: 7.54 ha
First planting: Spring 2025
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Establishment of a protective forest shelterbelt and land rehabilitation areas
Planted area: 3 ha
First planting: Autumn 2025
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Urban planting
Objective: Urban planting
First planting: 2023
Current status: Monitoring in progress
Objective: Urban planting
First planting: 2025
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work
Objective: Urban planting
First planting: 2025
Current status: Monitoring in progress
Objective: Urban planting
First planting: 2024
Current status: Monitoring in progress
Objective: Urban planting
First planting: 2024
Current status: Temporarily suspended
Objective: Enhancement of urban green spaces
Planted area: Fetești Municipal Park
First planting: 2023
Current status: Monitoring in progress
Afforestation projects funded under the umbrella of ViitorPlus, the association for sustainable development, and currently undergoing maintenance work and field monitoring by the Pădurea Copiilor Association, which separated from ViitorPlus in July 2016.
Planted area: 7 hectares
First planting: 2017
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work, and field monitoring
Planted area: 8 hectares, 3 new plots
First planting: 2017
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work, and field monitoring
Planted area: 6 hectares
First planting: 2012
Current status: Canopy closure achieved in 2019
Planted area: 6 hectares
First planting: 2017
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work, and field monitoring
Planted area: 9 hectares
First planting: 2011
Current status: Replacement and maintenance work, and field monitoring
Planted area: 13 hectares
First planting: 2008
Current status: Canopy closure achieved between 2013 and 2018, with 3 ha representing the last plot planted
Educational sessions
The Adopt a Tree programme provides educational sessions on environmental and sustainable development topics for communities where afforestation activities take place, with the aim of increasing knowledge and awareness.
The people living in these communities are the direct beneficiaries of the forest shelterbelts. They are the ones who grow alongside the trees and who need to understand their role and help protect them. Therefore, they need as much information as possible to make informed decisions.
The educational sessions take the form of presentations on waste reduction, reuse and proper recycling, as well as on the importance of forests for a healthy life, environmental competitions and clean up activities.
These activities mainly involve pupils from schools in the communities benefiting from afforestation activities.
WHERE?
In 2010, the “Friends of the Forest” competition was also held on World Environment Day, 5 June. Pupils from grades 1 to 8 from schools in Dragoș Vodă and Vâlcelele took part.
On 26 March 2010, an educational event took place, including presentations on environmental topics and clean up activities, involving pupils from Dragoș Vodă.
Between March and June 2014, 115 pupils from schools in Poroschia and Dragoș Vodă took part in workshops organised as part of the educational sessions delivered by the ViitorPlus team.
On 31 May 2018, in Chirnogi, the commune where we had been working to establish a forest shelterbelt since autumn 2017, the project team delivered four educational sessions attended by approximately 200 pupils and 10 teachers from the two schools offering grades 1 to 8.
In autumn 2021, more than 600 pupils from preparatory grade through grade 8 took part in educational sessions supported by OMV Petrom. The activities were carried out in schools in Breasta, Bistreț, Celaru and Goicea, Dolj County.
