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Student leather technicians replant trees after forest fires

06/03/2013
More than 100 students and teachers from a leather training institute in Ecuador gave up their spare time recently to take part in a tree-replanting exercise in the Imbabura province of the South American country.

Forest fires badly affected this part of Ecuador in 2012; the authorities have calculated that a total of 900 incidents left an area covering more than 2,000 hectares ravaged by fire.

Students from the Higher Technocal Institute for the Leather Industry in Ecuador took on board the message that trees needed to be replanted to attract rain, prevent soil erosion, purify the air and build up water resources in the region.

A group travelled to a community called San Nicolás on Sunday, March 3 and planted 500 new trees.


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