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National park restoration project new paradigm in Greece's reforestation

STORY: National park restoration project new paradigm in Greece's reforestation DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:11 LOCATION: Athens CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. Aerial shots of the National Park of Sounion 2. various of reforestation of the National Park of Sounion 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Greek): NICOS GEORGIADIS, Forest management officer, WWF Greece 4. various of reforestation of the National Park of Sounion by the environmental organization WWF Greece 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Greek): NICOS GEORGIADIS, Forest management officer, WWF Greece 6. various of reforestation of the National Park of Sounion by the environmental organization WWF Greece 7. Aerial shots of the National Park of Sounion 8. SOUNDBITE 3 (Greek): MARIA STATHI, Archaeologist of the Ephorate of Antiquities of East Attica STORYLINE: Devastated twice in a decade (in 2012 and 2021) by wildfires, part of the Sounion National Park, 9 km north of the ancient Temple of Poseidon that overlooks the Aegean Sea and about 40 km south of Athens, could no lon

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S. Korea's Park up before IOC

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - South Korean soccer player Park Jong Woo heads for a disciplinary hearing by the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 11, 2013. The IOC held the hearing for Woo, who stirred controversy at the 2012 London Olympics by raising a banner in the bronze-medal match against Japan proclaiming his country's sovereignty over the Sea of Japan islets known as Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo by Koreans.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show the "miracle pine" in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Sept. 11, 2012 (top), one and a half years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and after the tree was cut down, preserved and replanted in the same place on Feb. 13, 2014 (bottom).

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

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2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in December 2000 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From right to left are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2013, shows various merchandise featuring ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, on display at the prefectural government offices. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said the same day.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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Empress chose kimono to support emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko bow to bereaved families of victims of the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during a government ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, 2012, to mark the first anniversary of the disaster. The empress chose to wear a kimono and Japanese sandals so she could move more easily to support the emperor, who had been discharged from the hospital a week earlier after undergoing heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, in the event he were to fall, a senior Imperial Household Agency official said on March 15. (Pool photo)

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N. Korea power succession

BEIJING, China - People ride bicycles in Pyongyang in the afternoon on Feb. 11, 2012. The fields are covered with snow and the temperature was below 0 C.

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Tokyo eateries offer chance to support recovery efforts

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2012, shows the signboard of a nonprofit Japanese-style pub named Reconstruction Support Tavern, which opened in Tokyo's Ginza district in January the same year to aid recovery efforts in areas hit by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. The tavern, open until late September 2012, aims to donate its monthly profits of over 1 million yen to the prefectural governments of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.

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Disaster-hit kids' photo album

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 23, 2012, shows ''3/11 Kids Photo Journal,'' a photo album of pictures taken by 33 elementary and junior high school students in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures hit by March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which was published the same day by Kodansha Ltd.

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Commemorative coins

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows both sides of a commemorative 10,000-yen coin to be issued to support efforts to rebuild areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Japan on Feb. 21, 2012, announced a plan to issue 1,000-yen and 10,000-yen commemorative coins. The side on the right shows a design of the lone pine tree that survived the tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, and doves. The tree, dubbed by residents the ''miracle pine,'' has become a symbol of the city's reconstruction.

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Minamisoma mayor to run in Tokyo Marathon

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, runs on the morning of Feb. 20, 2012, in the city, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster. Sakurai plans to participate in the Tokyo Marathon 2012 on Feb. 26 to run the full race.

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Minamisoma mayor to run in Tokyo Marathon

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, runs on the morning of Feb. 20, 2012, in the city, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster. Sakurai plans to participate in the Tokyo Marathon 2012 on Feb. 26 to run the full race.

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Death penalty for murder

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2012, shows flowers and other items placed at the door of an apartment in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where Yayoi Motomura, 23, and her 11-month-old daughter Yuka were murdered by Takayuki Otsuki, then 18, in 1999. The Supreme Court on the day upheld a lower court sentence of capital punishment for Otsuki.

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Prince hopes for strengthening anti-disaster measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito speaks during an international symposium on the 2011 disaster and tsunami warning systems, at the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 16, 2012. He expressed hope for taking lessons from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami to strengthen anti-disaster measures in Japan and the rest of the world. (Pool photo)

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Prince hopes for strengthening anti-disaster measures

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito speaks during an international symposium on the 2011 disaster and tsunami warning systems, at the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Feb. 16, 2012. He expressed hope for taking lessons from the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami to strengthen anti-disaster measures in Japan and the rest of the world. (Pool photo)

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Business in Pyongyang under new leader

PYONGYANG, North Korea - People are seen pushing an electricity-driven trolley bus from behind in Pyongyang on Feb. 11, 2012.

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Remembering civil rights activist

SEATTLE, United States - Jay Hirabayashi (2nd from R), son of civil rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi, Judge Mary Schroeder (2nd from L) and other people associated with the late Hirabayashi, who fought the United States' internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, attend an event to commemorate his activities on Feb. 11, 2012, in Seattle. Gordon Hirabayashi, who was jailed for violating the curfew and internment orders, appealed his conviction before the U.S. Supreme Court and lost. Decades later in 1987, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion authored by Schroeder, overturned his conviction after he reopened his case in 1983.

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Asada finishes 2nd in Four Continents

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - (From L) Japan's Mao Asada, Ashley Wagner and Caroline Zhang, both from the United States, show their medals at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 11, 2012. Wagner won the championships while Asada and Zhang took second and third place, respectively.

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Wagner wins at Four Continents

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - Ashley Wagner performs during the women's free skate at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 11, 2012. The U.S. champion won her first international title.

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Murakami finishes 4th at Four Continents

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - Japan's Kanako Murakami performs during the women's free skate at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 11, 2012. The former junior world champion finished fourth.

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Asada finishes 2nd at Four Continents

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - Japan's Mao Asada performs during the women's free skate at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 11, 2012. The two-time world champion finished second to U.S. champion Ashley Wagner.

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Asada finishes 2nd at Four Continents

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - Japan's Mao Asada performs during the women's free skate at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 11, 2012. The two-time world champion finished second to U.S. champion Ashley Wagner.

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Murakami finishes 4th at Four Continents

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - Japan's Kanako Murakami performs during the women's free skate at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 11, 2012. The former junior world champion finished fourth.

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Asada finishes 2nd at Four Continents

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - Japan's Mao Asada performs during the women's free skate at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 11, 2012. The two-time world champion finished second to U.S. champion Ashley Wagner.

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Asada finishes 2nd at Four Continents

COLORADO SPRINGS, United States - Japan's Mao Asada poses with her silver medal after finishing second in the women's competition at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Feb. 11, 2012.

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Emperor to undergo heart bypass surgery

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2012 after spending the previous night in University of Tokyo Hospital, where he underwent a detailed heart exam on Feb. 11. The 78-year-old emperor will undergo heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18 at the hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said on Feb. 12.

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Japanese cuisine clinic in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Cooks learn how to prepare raw fish at Michelin-starred seafood restaurant Oceana in New York on Feb. 11, 2012. The Japanese Consulate General in New York hosted the clinic to promote Japanese cuisines.

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Japanese cuisine clinic in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Sushi chef Toshio Suzuki (L) explains the meaning of the Japanese phrase ''Itadakimasu'' (thank you for the food) before teaching cooks how to prepare raw fish at Michelin-starred seafood restaurant Oceana in New York on Feb. 11, 2012. The Japanese Consulate General in New York hosted the clinic to promote Japanese cuisines.

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Kagawa scores winner in Bundesliga

DORTMUND, Germany - Japan and Borussia Dortmund midfielder Shinji Kagawa (C) slides home the only goal of a Bundesliga game against Bayer Leverkusen in Dortmund, Germany, on Feb. 11, 2012.

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Okazaki scores in Bundesliga

STUTTGART, Germany - Stuttgart's Shinji Okazaki (C) scores a goal with a header during a Bundesliga game against Hertha Berlin in Stuttgart, Germany, on Feb. 11, 2012. Stuttgart won 5-0.

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Myanmar opposition leader Suu Kyi in election campaign

KAWMHU, Myanmar - Aung San Suu Kyi (L), leader of Myanmar's opposition party the National League for Democracy, delivers a speech in her electoral district south of Yangon on Feb. 11, 2012. The visit was Suu Kyi's first stumping tour to the Kawmhu township for the April 1, 2012, parliamentary by-elections.

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11 months after tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers search for remains of people missing in the March 2011 quake and tsunami in an operation in the Pacific off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 11, 2012. Some 3,300 people remained missing 11 months after the disaster.

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Myanmar opposition leader Suu Kyi in election campaign

KAWMHU, Myanmar - Aung San Suu Kyi (2nd from L on podium), leader of Myanmar's opposition party the National League for Democracy, delivers a speech in her electoral district south of Yangon on Feb. 11, 2012. The visit was Suu Kyi's first stumping tour to the Kawmhu township for the April 1, 2012, parliamentary by-elections.

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Protest in Greece

ATHENS, Greece - Demonstrators protest Greek austerity measures in front of the parliament building in Athens on Feb. 11, 2012.

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Mourning wreath in front of Greek parliament

ATHENS, Greece - Photo taken Feb. 11, 2012, shows a mourning wreath placed by demonstrators in front of Greece's parliament in Athens. Parliament approved an austerity bill on Feb. 13, 2012, to secure a second bailout fund from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

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Suu Kyi election campaign

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi calls for support in her constituency in Kawmhu Township, Myanmar, on Feb. 11, 2012, ahead of the upcoming April 1 by-elections. (Photo by Yukichika Murayama)

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Darth Vader in event

FUKUOKA, Japan - A person clad as Darth Vader of the Star Wars series movies take part in an event to call for good passenger manners at the subway's Tenjin Station in Fukuoka on Feb. 11, 2012.

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Flying flamingos

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Flamingos take wings during a show at Miyazaki City Phoenix Zoo in Miyazaki Prefecture on Feb. 11, 2012.

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Tokyo Gate Bridge

TOKYO, Japan - Electric vehicles and other eco-cars pass Tokyo Gate Bridge on Tokyo Bay as part of a ceremony on Feb. 11, 2012, a day before the opening of the bridge.

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Tokyo Gate Bridge

TOKYO, Japan - Electric vehicles and other eco-cars pass Tokyo Gate Bridge on Tokyo Bay as part of a ceremony on Feb. 11, 2012, a day before the opening of the bridge.

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267-kilogram chocolate ring

OSAKA, Japan - A 267-kilogram ''finger ring'' made by chocolate and candy is completed in Osaka on Feb. 11, 2012, and was recognized as the world's largest by the Guinness World Records. The work is an event prior to the Valentine's Day on Feb. 14, which is regarded in Japan as a day for women to give chocolate to men.

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267-kilogram chocolate ring

OSAKA, Japan - A 267-kilogram ''finger ring'' made by chocolate and candy is completed in Osaka on Feb. 11, 2012, and was recognized as the world's largest by the Guinness World Records. The work is an event prior to the Valentine's Day on Feb. 14, which is regarded in Japan as a day for women to give chocolate to men.

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Suu Kyi election campaign

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi receives flowers from her supporters in her constituency in Kawmhu Township, Myanmar, on Feb. 11, 2012, ahead of the upcoming April 1 by-elections. (Photo by Yukichika Murayama)

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Antinuclear power rally

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel Prize in literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe speaks as about 12,000 people joined a rally calling for abandoning nuclear power in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on Feb. 11, 2012.

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Antinuclear power rally

TOKYO, Japan - About 12,000 people demonstrate in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward after a rally calling for abandoning nuclear power on Feb. 11, 2012.