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Forests [3/5]: Mediterranean species replanted in the north

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A pine cone grown from a branch of an Aleppo pine.

This species, as well as Turkey oak or Bysance hazelnut plants, for example, are replanted in the Jura to fight against climate change.

(Illustration) © CC0 Pixabay/Julian DC

By: Laurence Théault Follow

Some tree species suffer terribly from drought and increasingly hot temperatures.

This is the reason why we are trying to replant Mediterranean species, in other words more adapted to the heat.

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