College of Agriculture, University of Anbar held an online workshop on the project of planting one million trees in the Iraqi universities as green spaces to achieve the Iraq sustainable environment vision of 2030, Ministry’s Deputy for Scientific Research Affairs, Dr. Fouad Qassim Mohammed said. Dr. Mohammed added that the online workshop reviewed the contributions of the project in improving the environmental reality in Iraq, as well as spreading the culture of tree planting to combat desertification and support food security in Iraq in light of the pandemic crisis that afflicts the world. Dr. Mohammed continued by saying  that the online workshop also reviewed ways to open up to the departments of the State with a near specialization and localize the types of trees that can live in local environmental conditions and their adoption in afforestation of cities, roads and public parks. It is worth mentioning that the online workshop recommended adopting suitable plant species for growth under the local environment in light of the evaluation of the performance of imported plants and determining their appropriated plantation areas in entire Iraq based on the data of the sub-committees.