Africa's Great Green Wall project

[JP1]

A project aiming to build a 9km wide green belt across 8000km across Africa

Mainly Acacia trees, Senegal is making most progress and the overall project is now 15% completed since the start in 2017

 

[marco]

A project aiming to build a 9km wide green belt across 8000km across Africa

Mainly Acacia trees, Senegal is making most progress and the overall project is now 15% completed since the start in 2017

cool.

 

[spin cycle]

fantastic

 

[Muck Spreader]

It shouldn't take that long, Acacias here can easily put on 2m a year. Good for fencing posts.

 

[uztrac]

Nothing new about this project.In the mid 70's Colonel Gaddafi started a major tree planting programme in Libya with initial water coming from aquafirs to start the growing process.A vast quantity of eucylatus were planted. Iwas loosely involved with this programme as MF tractors were utilized to pull the 4 wheel water bowsers.Australian dry region advisors were resident to oversee the initial phase of the project. Foreword thinking many moons ago by Gaddafi !!

 

[ollie989898]

Sounds like heck of a game strip. Dare we ask what kind of game?

 

[Chris F]

What a mega project. Wonder if it will ever finish.

 

[Exfarmer]

FFS, this is Africa, gullible westerners will give large sums to the project and a few will go to see their tree planted, even growing.
Many will report how well the project is going and lots of money will be deposited in Swiss banks.
There have been many such projects, the Africans are good at parting fools from their money
Ps a large scale project was undertaken in India with similar aims, except they used the wrong acacaia planting a variety which is poisonous to lvestock