Ethiopia lost around 560,000 hectares of forest between 2000 and 2025 to agriculture, logging and charcoal production. In 2019, the government launched the Green Legacy Initiative, which saw citizens planting trees on a massive scale. Yitebitu Moges of UNEP's REDD+ programme says that even if only half the trees survive, there are already gains for moisture, soil and carbon storage....
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