The Great Green Wall or Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel (French: Grande Muraille Verte pour le Sahara et le Sahel; Arabic: السور الأخضر العظيم, romanized: as-Sūr al-ʾAkhḍar al-ʿAẓīm) is a project adopted by the African Union in 2007, initially conceived as a way to combat desertification in the Sahel ...

The Great Green Wall is taking root in Africa's Sahel region, at the southern edge of the Sahara desert - one of the poorest places on the planet. More than anywhere else on Earth, the Sahel is on the frontline of climate change and millions of locals are already facing its devastating impact.

Oct 19, 2023 · In Africa, scientists are hard at work restoring land once rich with biodiversity and vegetation. Eleven countries in the Sahel -Sahara region—Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Senegal—have joined to combat land degradation and restore native plant life to the landscape.

Aug 3, 2023 · Officially known as the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI), this ambitious effort aims to restore 100 million hectares (247 million acres) of degraded land, sequester 250 million metric tons of carbon to combat climate change, and create 10 million jobs by the end of this decade.

Aug 23, 2016 · The plan: plant a Great Green Wall of trees 10 miles wide and 4,350 miles long, bisecting a dozen countries from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east. The problem: the creeping...

Jan 3, 2022 · The “Great Green Wall” project aims to stop desertification by planting a massive line of trees in the Sahel. Those trees, new research shows, could also have a powerful effect on the...

Mar 17, 2021 · To hold back the Sahara Desert, the Great Green Wall initiative hopes to restore 100 million hectares of land in the north of Africa by 2030. Launched in 2007, the project spans 11...

Feb 22, 2023 · The Great Green Wall is a spectacular initiative designed to help people and nature cope with the growing impact of the climate emergency and the degradation of vital ecosystems, and to keep the Sahara desert from spreading deeper into …

The Great Green Wall is an ambitious African-led initiative aimed at combating desertification, land degradation, and climate change across the Sahel region of Africa.

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.