The fifth #sadziMY campaign is taking place across Poland on 2-3 October 2023. For the great national tree planting in the year preceding the centenary of the State Forests, foresters prepared one million seedlings. They could be obtained in all forest districts in Poland.

According to the State Forests, activities are being consistently implemented to increase the country’s forest cover, which currently stands at 29.6 % of the country. This means that forests cover almost a third of Poland.

“Every planted tree means climate protection”, convinces President Andrzej Duda, encouraging people to take part in the campaign.

The #sadzimyMY campaign was initiated by the Presidential Couple on 26 April 2019. The initiative was launched in response to the devastation wrought by the hurricane of the century that hit Poland in 2017. The hurricane was the largest such disaster in the 95-year history of the National Forests. The storms wreaked havoc on forests in dozens of forest districts, mainly in Pomerania and Kujawy.

The culmination of the #sadziMY campaign took place on Tuesday 3 October in the Suchedniów Forest District, in the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Radom. There, trees were planted by the Presidential Couple. „President Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda have not only been patrons of the project since its launch, but they have also encouraged others by their own example”, stresses the Chancellery of the President.

Anyone wishing to take part in the campaign could visit the nearest forest district to collect a seedling and plant it on their own land. There are 429 forest districts in Poland. All together they have prepared one million seedlings of various tree and shrub species.

“There are never too many forests. We are conscientiously implementing the assumptions of the National Programme for Increasing Forest Cover, i.e. creating conditions for increasing Poland’s forest cover to 33 % in 2050 for the sake of nature, for the comfort of Poles’ lives, for the development of our economy”, said Józef Kubica, Director General of the State Forests.

Adrian Andrzejewski