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 centu…
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