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Azerbaijan plants 650,000 trees to celebrate poet – but green activists grumble

Azerbaijan trees

Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation Oil-rich Azerbaijan planted more than half a million trees on Friday to celebrate a 14th century poet, an initiative the government said would help tackle climate change but some environmental activists called “a waste of money”. The Azeri ministry of ecology said 650,000 trees were being planted across the country to […]