for almost 25 years by governor mariam god but as a last he has been tending to his church forest some 200 monks living here in this altar that's the way he took community in northern ethiopia for centuries monks up preserve the forests around their churches taking care of the citizens as being a spiritual ritual for members of this faith to view the natural forest as a symbol of heaven. the ministry hands 183.5. this is on and on the shape of the ministry we are committed to date and some more to transfer history a heritage we have got from our fathers and a responsibility to plants and puts a new trees whenever the old trees die. and then thanks to their efforts many tried compounds both of large indigenous trees such as the wild pier or the iron tree earlier africana for example some of the trees around here are 100 years old. if your pea has less than 5 percent forest cover down from 40 percent in 1990 trees that cut down for charcoal and firewood and to make way for farming and grazing land but to protect the church for as have remained intact the south gone the region as an estim