Rehabilitation of Ayid Island Reserve, west of Tabqqa city

The Environment Committee is working to rehabilitate Ayid Island Reserve, 10 km west of Tabqqa city, and the co-chair of the Environment Committee in Tabqqa, Jamal Abdel Latif, told Aso News Network that 10,000 diverse trees will be planted during the afforestation season this year, in addition to appointing a female environmental officer. To protect the reserve from encroachment and overgrazing.

The reserve is the second largest reserve in terms of area in Syria, and it contained more than 900,000 fruit and forest trees, in addition to many species of wild animals and birds.

More than half of the reserve’s area was exposed to destruction, vandalism, unjust cutting, and fires during the control of the armed factions and ISIS over the city of Tabqqa, according to the co-chair of the Environment Committee.