Editing Reforestation (section)

==== Japan ====
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery explain that about two-thirds of Japanese land is covered with forests,<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Report on Forest and Forestry in Japan |url=http://www.maff.go.jp/e/data/publish/attach/pdf/index-64.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712184909/http://www.maff.go.jp/e/data/publish/attach/pdf/index-64.pdf |archive-date=12 July 2018 |access-date=7 September 2018 |publisher=Forestry Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan}}</ref> and it was almost unchanged from 1966 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Change in Forest Cover (2016) |url=http://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/keikaku/genkyou/h24/pdf/joukyou1_1_h24.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908130452/http://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/keikaku/genkyou/h24/pdf/joukyou1_1_h24.pdf |archive-date=8 September 2018 |access-date=7 September 2018 |publisher=The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery, Forestry Agency}}</ref> Japan needs to reduce 26% of green house gas emission from 2013 by 2030 to accomplish Paris Agreement and is trying to reduce 2% of them by forestry.<ref>{{cite web |title=Promotion of International Efforts (2016) |url=http://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/kikaku/hakusyo/28hakusyo/attach/pdf/zenbun-4.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908130417/http://www.rinya.maff.go.jp/j/kikaku/hakusyo/28hakusyo/attach/pdf/zenbun-4.pdf |archive-date=8 September 2018 |access-date=7 September 2018 |publisher=The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery}}</ref>

Mass environmental and human-body pollution along with relating deforestation, water pollution, smoke damage, and loss of soils caused by [[Ashio Copper Mine|mining operations in Ashio]], Tochigi became the first environmental social issue in Japan, efforts by [[Shōzō Tanaka]] had grown to large campaigns against copper operation. This led to the creation of '[[Watarase River|Watarase]] Yusuichi Pond', to settle the pollution which is a [[list of Ramsar sites in Japan|Ramsar site today]]. Reforestation was conducted as a part of [[afforestation]] due to inabilities of self-recovering by the natural land itself due to serious [[soil pollution]] and loss of woods consequence in loss of soils for plants to grow, thus needing artificial efforts involving introducing of healthy soils from outside. Starting from around 1897, about 50% of once bald mountains are now back to green.<ref>{{cite web |title=日光 足尾 体験植樹 案内 |url=http://www.ashiomidori.com/%E4%BD%93%E9%A8%93%E6%A4%8D%E6%A8%B9%E3%81%AE%E3%81%94%E6%A1%88%E5%86%85/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202020211/http://www.ashiomidori.com/%E4%BD%93%E9%A8%93%E6%A4%8D%E6%A8%B9%E3%81%AE%E3%81%94%E6%A1%88%E5%86%85/ |archive-date=2016-02-02 |access-date=2016-01-29}}</ref>