Tehran - A group of Iranian experts has discovered traces of widespread tree planting projects during the Achaemenid and Sassanid periods.
The leader of the group, Morteza Jamali of the Botanical Laboratory of the French Institute of Oceania and the Mediterranean Institute of Ecology and Paleoecology, has called the tree planting projects a ‘tree planting revolution’.
The traces have been discovered during the palynological studies that the group conducted on the columns of sediment samples that were collected from Lake Maharlu in Fars Province, Lake Urmia in West Azarbaijan Province and Lake Almalu in East Azarbaijan.
Most of the trees planted during the Persian empires were walnut, grape, olive and plane trees.
Jamali is to report the results of his studies during a lecture entitled “the Tree Planting Revolution during the Persian Empires” at the National Museum of Iran on Tuesday at 2 p.m.
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