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These pics prove just that.<\/p>\n<h2>A total of 7.5 million trees are being planted in the city \u2013 that\u2019s roughly the number of people that call the city home.<\/h2>\n<div style='clear:both;'><\/div>\n<p><!--infeed--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/06061120\/fy-uigpxoaew8tr.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><\/p>\n<h2>A lot of the trees used are ones that are native to the region.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/06061118\/fy-ui1ex0ausak5.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><\/p>\n<h2>Talk about feeling the better air quality already.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/06061122\/fy-uilwxwaazfqr.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><\/p>\n<h2>What you see in the photos is only the beginning, millions more are to come.<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/08\/06061124\/fy-uht3xgaape_l.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were a lot of eyebrows raised when the Green Riyadh project was announced back in 2019 after it all it is one of the most ambitious, if not the most ambitious, urban forestation projects the world has ever seen. 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