cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28594392

Countries in the Sahel region of Africa have made little progress on the “Great Green Wall,” a 5,000-mile-long band of trees planned for the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Even where communities are planting new trees, few seedlings actually survive, new research shows.

The African Union launched the project in 2007, planning to create a 10-mile-wide strip of trees