Ethiopia: PM Abiy Calls On Ethiopians to Unite for Historic 800 Million Seedling Campaign
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Ethiopia answered deforestation with a single, almost unbelievable day of collective effort: in 2019 it reported planting more than 350 million tree seedlings in just one day, a claimed world record for its Green Legacy campaign against deforestation
A century ago, a large share of Ethiopia’s land was covered in trees. By the 2000s, one widely repeated UN Environment estimate put forest cover at just 4 percent, down from around 35 percent a century earlier. That is not a slow trim. That is a forest vanishing inside a single lifetime, worsening soil erosion and increasing pressure on the firewood supplies a growing population depends on. So when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government answered…
Ethiopia: PM Abiy Calls On Ethiopians to Unite for Historic 800 Million Seedling Campaign
Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called on all Ethiopians to make final preparations for a historic national effort to plant 800 million tree seedlings in a single day.
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA), in collaboration with Jimma University, established a sapling production facility as part of the "Ethiopian Fruit Cultivation Support Project" carried out in Ethiopia.
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