But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest—the size of about 381 million soccer fields—was destroyed every year between 2010 and ...

In 2015, African countries launched the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), committing to restore 100 million hectares (250 million acres) of degraded forests and landscapes ...

The Restore Africa project has successfully planted or regenerated 10 million trees and also empowered over 250,000 ...

World Bank joins forces with private sector in $1.6bn AFR100 initiative designed to restore 100m hectares of forest across Africa by 2030 More than a dozen African countries have joined an ...

There are ambitious continentwide restoration goals under the Bonn Challenge too. The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) aims to revive 100 million hectares ...

African countries are therefore committed to reversing the situation. Two international strategic meetings on forest restoration are taking place this week in Nairobi, Kenya: the meeting of the ...

A new study reveals that an area the size of France is threatened by forest restoration initiatives, such as the AFR100 initiative (African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative), due to ...

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bezos Earth Fund today announced $50 million to help accelerate Africa's locally led rest ...

The South African G20 presidency should also bolster large-scale restoration initiatives like the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative, which plans to restore 1 million hectares of land ...