Editing Tree planting (section)

===South Africa===
[[South Africa]]'s forests have been a heavily depleted mostly due to agriculture, traditional farming and urbanisation in the coastal regions. Various organizations are working on increasing the forest cover in parts of the country. Currently there is less than 0.5% forest cover in South Africa. Wildlands Conservation Trust and Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) are some of the oldest NGOs working to plant trees throughout South Africa—both established in the early 1990s. Greenpop is a national [[Social Enterprise]] established in 2010 which focusses on tree planting in sustainable [[urban greening]] and [[forest restoration]] in [[Sub-Saharan Africa]]. There is a strong volunteer movement for conservation in South Africa. National Tree Day or [[Arbor Day]] is organised annually in September, and has gone on to become national Arbor Month.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

The largest planted forest in the Southern Hemisphere is located in the Sabie/Graskop area in South Africa and covers approximately 6,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sabie.co.za/about/forestry/index.html |title=Forestry - Sabie |access-date=2018-11-22 |archive-date=2018-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109073510/http://sabie.co.za/about/forestry/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>