Walls: Great Green Wall of Africa

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Imagine a living symbol of hope, the largest living structure on the planet, one that stretches 8,000km across Africa, ushering in a new era of sustainability and economic growth.

Launched in 2007 by the African Union, the game-changing African-led Great Green Wall initiative aims to restore the continent’s degraded landscapes and transform millions of lives in the Sahel. This ambitious project is being implemented across 22 African countries and will revitalize thousands of communities across the continent. It brings together African countries and international partners under the leadership of the African Union Commission and the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green. More than USD 8 billion has been raised and pledged to support this game-changing initiative.

The Great Green Wall initiative uses an integrated approach to restore a diversity of ecosystems in the North African landscape.

The Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel is Africa’s Flagship programme including a mosaic of land-based initiatives leveraging the land-water-energy Nexus.
(Definition of Nexus: a connection or link between things, persons, or events especially that is or is part of a chain of causation)

By the United Nations Environment Programme.

Planet Wild (November 7, 2023)

The multibillion-dollar effort to plant a 4,000-mile-long wall of trees hit some snags along the way, but there’s still hope. By Jim Morrison (Smithsonian Magazine August 23, 2016)