Politics · Italy · 10 hrs ago

Italy planted nearly 3.7 million trees in 2025, up 17% from 2024

Italy planted nearly 3.7 million trees and shrubs in 2025, 17% more than in 2024, across more than 5,300 hectares.

The new plantings are expected to provide ecosystem services worth about €28 million a year.

Trentino-Alto Adige led the regions, with more than 840,000 trees, while Sicily ranked second with more than 600,000.

Metropolitan areas added 1.48 million trees and shrubs using PNRR funds, with Turin and Rome accounting for 59% of that total.

Nine regions did not fund new plantings through their regular regional forestry policies in 2025.

In most of those regions, rural development funding had not yet been activated as the new programme was still getting started.

The figures show that planting activity varied widely across the country, and the account gives no further plans or timetable for what happens next.

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ANSA · 10 hrs ago