National efforts succeed in rehabilitating thousands of hectares of mining-affected lands

The government has started implementing an ambitious plan to rehabilitate more than 8,000 hectares of lands damaged and abandoned for so many years due to mining activities. At least 2,000 hectares of degraded land need to be rehabilitated.

To achieve this goal, the government has set up a task force comprised of several top officials to that end.

More than 2,123 hectares have been rehabilitated and some 679 hectares have also been biologically rehabilitated thanks to the task force’s intensive work to rehabilitate degraded areas nationwide in 2021.

This was one of the highlights of the Ministry of Nature, Environment, and Tourism’s 2021 project, which achieved the government’s goal of rehabilitating 2,000 hectares of land by 2021.