Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, founder and head of IDEA Public Union Leyla Aliyeva has attended the first tree-planting campaign of “Green Marathon” for the spring season of 2023.

During the tree-planting campaign, a garden of sakura trees, donated to Azerbaijan by the Japanese government as a symbol of friendship between the two countries, was laid in the "Ganjlik" park located in the Khatai district of Baku.

The campaign also saw the planting of new pine trees with the participation of young volunteers.

The main purpose of the marathon is to eradicate the threats caused by the decrease in green areas and to contribute to environmental protection through a tree-planting campaign.

Within the marathon, tree-planting campaigns are organized across Azerbaijan in the spring-autumn sowing season.