A planting campaign has begun in Lebanon to try to save the oldest trees in recorded human history.
Cedars have been around for thousands of years but have been steadily chopped away during years of deforestation.
Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab reports from the Bekaa Valley.
Lebanon, officially known as the Lebanese Republic, is a country in the Levant region of Western Asia, and the transcontinental region of the Middle East.
The official language, Arabic, is the most common language spoken by the citizens of Lebanon. Its capital is Beirut.
Lebanon was a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and is a member of the Arab League (1945), the Non-Aligned Movement (1961), Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (1969), and the Organisation internationale de la francophonie (1973).