Hosted on MSN3mon
Africa's Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions, say researchers
The Great Green Wall initiative is a tree planting restoration project that stretches from Senegal to Djibouti, 5,000 miles (8,000km) across Africa's Sahel region. In Téssékéré, bare ...
Daily Express1mon
The £26bn 'great wall of Africa' spanning 22 countries and over 4,000 miles long
It was then approved in 2005. Lessons for Africa’s green wall were taken from the Algerian Green Dam and the Green Wall of China - the latter of which began in 1978 to slow the spread of the ...
Hosted on MSN23h
Burkina Faso's Nature Reserves Are Worth Protecting - but People Have to Be Part of the Plan [analysis]
Burkina Faso is a west African dryland country known for its diverse ecosystems, including savannas, forests and wetlands. Large herbivores like elephant, giraffe and hippopotamus, and predators like ...
Moviefone4y
The Great Green Wall
An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight against increasing drought, desertification and ...