verb
- to replant an area with trees; to restore forest cover to previously forested land
Usage: environmental science; forestry
Examples
- The government plans to reafforest the hillsides that were cleared decades ago.
- Environmental groups are working to reafforest areas damaged by wildfires.
- It will take many years to successfully reafforest the former logging sites.
- The project aims to reafforest 10,000 acres of degraded farmland.
- Native species were chosen to reafforest the watershed area.
- Volunteers helped reafforest the park after the storm damage.