Volunteers planted more than 100,000 oak acorns around Lalish
Yazidi caretakers and volunteers sowed native oak seed on the mountain around Lalish, the sixth stop in a campaign aimed at a million trees.
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Volunteers and Yazidi caretakers planted more than 100,000 oak acorns on the mountain around Lalish. Rudaw reported the day on October 29, 2026. The planting, on Wednesday, was the Shekhan stop in the Rwanga Foundation's campaign to sow one million native oaks across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Yazidi religious figures and people who serve Lalish Temple worked beside the volunteers. Khalid Narmo, an adviser to the Yazidi Spiritual Council, told Rudaw the oaks are among the region's native trees. Aya Mohammed, who came with friends from Rojava in northeast Syria, said they had traveled to plant. Farhang Ayoub, who directs the foundation's office in Akre, said environment work is one of the foundation's main fields.
Lalish is the sixth destination. Earlier stages covered towns and rural districts in Erbil and Duhok provinces. The foundation says it will keep going in more districts until it reaches the million-seed goal. The news is this planting. It is not a count of how many of those acorns will become trees.
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Volunteers planted more than 100,000 oak acorns around Lalish, in the Shekhan district of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Rudaw reported it on October 29, 2026. An acorn is an oak seed. Yazidi leaders and people who look after Lalish Temple planted with the volunteers. Oaks are native there, meaning they belong in that landscape. This was the sixth stop in a campaign that hopes to plant one million native oaks. Earlier stops were in Erbil and Duhok. One volunteer came from northeast Syria to help. The news is the acorns planted, not a promise that every seed will grow.
- Why plant an acorn from a local oak instead of a tree from far away?
- What is one tree or plant your class could look after at school, with a teacher?
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