Nature experts develop plan to restore burnt Borjomi forest

Work has been launched to restore the Borjomi forest that was burnt following a major wildfire in Georgia this August.

A commission was set up upon the initiative of the Environment Ministry and involved the country’s leading nature experts to assess the situation and develop a plan of forest restoration.

Recently, the commission held a field trip to the affected forest and identified the exact area that was burnt.

The Environment Ministry said that 752 hectares of forests have been burnt. Of these, 525 hectares was the same area that was burnt during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war.

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Based on the field trip results, the commission is now to prepare recommendations as to when and how to begin forest restoration processes.

Once the timetable is created, activities will begin to return new life to the burnt forest step by step, the Ministry said.

A massive forest fire erupted in south-central Georgia’s Borjomi Gorge on October 20 and it took six days for the fire to be fully put out.