{"id":229023,"date":"2026-03-30T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chinese-mining-firm-launches-tree-planting-drive-amid-environmental-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:11:55","slug":"zimbabwe-chinese-mining-firm-launches-tree-planting-drive-amid-environmental-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chinese-mining-firm-launches-tree-planting-drive-amid-environmental-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chinese Mining Firm Launches Tree Planting Drive Amid Environmental Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">CHINESE owned mining company Ming Chang Sino Africa operating in Shamva launched a tree-planting initiative to mark the International Day of Forests, as debate continues over the environmental impact of foreign mining operations in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The tree-planting event was held at Mingchang Primary School in Shamva with officials saying the programme was meant to promote environmental restoration and responsible mining practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This comes at a time when Chinese companies are among the largest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603300428.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHINESE owned mining company Ming Chang Sino Africa operating in Shamva launched a tree-planting initiative to mark the International Day of Forests, as debate continues over the environmental impact of foreign mining operations in Zimbabwe. The tree-planting event was held at Mingchang Primary School in Shamva with officials saying the programme was meant to promote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,435,5987,13716,14654,7559,5957,6477,257,10688,254,10450,4686,421],"class_list":["post-229023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chinese","tag-concerns","tag-drive","tag-environmental","tag-firm","tag-launches","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-planting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tree","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}