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Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting record to tackle climate change
Ethiopia lies in the northeastern part of Africa, known as the Horn of Africa. With a population of just over a hundred million inhabitants, it is the second most populous country in Africa after Nigeria and is also the most populous land-locked country in the world. Ethiopia is a multilingual nation with 90 individual languages spoken. Sounds challenging to unite a country, doesn’t it?
The African nation has been facing a serious deforestation problem since the early 20th Century. About 35% of the land used to be covered with forests but it is only around 4% after the millennium. So, as part of the government’s Green Legacy Initiative, a nation-wide tree planting exercise was taken place in 1,000 sites on July 29. As many as 350 million seedlings of indigenous trees were planted by volunteers just in 12 hours. The project seems to be one of the means to unite a nation of so many different languages and tribes.
Now, a world record and strong momentum were established. It’s time to grow the seedlings to form forests. But where were they planted? There seems to be a lot of free land in Ethiopia.
Enjoy reading the article about one example to tackle the effects of deforestation and climate change.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49151523
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