TASHKENT, Uzbekistan: The World Bank has approved a $142 million concessional credit for Uzbekistan to support a project to restore degraded forested lands in various regions of the country, and promote Uzbekistan's collaboration with other Central Asian countries on transboundary landscape restoration, the bank's Tashkent office said Thursday.

The project is part of the Resilient Landscapes in Central Asia Program that aims to increase resilience to further desertification, landscape degradation and climate change, it said.

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