I was under the impression that the Great Green Wall of Africa doesn't really exist at the moment, and that no project goals were ever reached.
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True - the GGW of China has 88Bn trees. That's compared to 390Bn in the Amazon Rainforest.
The GGW of Africa only has 1Bn trees so far.
So not as noteworthy.
I would imagine planting a forest 1/5th the size of The Amazon is the major driver here...
Here's an article from 2020:
>What happened to Africa's ambitious green belt project?
https://www.dw.com/en/what-happened-to-africas-ambitious-gre...