Afforestation is the process of planting large numbers of trees on land which has few or no trees on it. Since the Sixties, afforestation has changed the Welsh countryside. the act of planting trees in order to make a forest deforestation (afforestatio, from afforestare , from ad- + forestis )
The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested