The Great Green Wall was pitched in 2007 as an 8,000-kilometre tree barrier — but 15 years in, only about 4% of the trees are actually in the ground

The Great Green Wall was pitched in 2007 as an 8,000-kilometre tree barrier — but 15 years in, only about 4% of the trees are actually in the ground

The Great Green Wall was pitched to the world in 2007 as an 8,000-kilometre living barrier — a corridor of trees running from Senegal on the Atlantic to Djibouti on the Red Sea, 15 kilometres wide, thick enough to hold back the advancing Sahara. Fifteen years into the project, roughly 4% of the trees are actually in the ground. The rest exists mostly on funding decks, in COP announcements, and in the sunburnt remains of plots where saplings were…

Kano 2026 tree planting exercise launched, group plants 2,000 trees in Kaduna - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy

The Federal Government has launched the 2026 tree planting campaign and inaugurated the National Steering Committee of the Sustainable Agricultural Restoration and Growth for Green Wall Areas (SURAGGWA) in Kano. The Minister of Environment, Malam Balarabe Lawal, performed the inauguration on Thursday, July 9, during the commemoration of the 2026 Great Green Wall Day at the headquarters of the National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) in K…