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.
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