western tunisia alone we need wooded areas they prevent so you ocean to provide shade and storm oyster hussam humvees started an initiative called the solly and green and uses social media to call on his fellow tunisians to regrind devastated stretches all the land find out more in our during your big series. forest fires have become a big problem in tunisia 2 years ago wildfires ravaged the country's northwest destroying 2000 hectares of forest. the result was widespread soil erosion and deservedly cation environmentalist who somehow mobilized people via social media to plant new trees to combat these affects each see. maybe just a drop in the ocean but as the activist says drops to accumulate he and hundreds of volunteers manage to plant some $20000.00 trees in just one month. we did receive support from the forestry authorities. but the tree planting action is a public initiative anyone can take part of it's the newly planted trees will also benefit local people economically pine nuts are used to produce popular baked goods the initiative slowly and green is planning to promote similar tre