Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative is turning citizens into foresters

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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For most of the past century, Ethiopia was losing its forests. From the turn of the millennium to 2025, the country shed 560,000 hectares, about 2,160 square miles, of tree cover to agriculture, logging, and charcoal fuel. Then the government launched the Green Legacy Initiative in 2019, and citizens […] The post Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative is turning…

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