GREEN LEGACY: Ethiopians planted more than 350 million trees in one day as part of an ambitious initiative that aims to help restore the country's landscape.
. The ambitious initiative of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed aims to help restore the country's landscape which experts say is fast being eroded by deforestation and climate change.
"Today Ethiopia is set in our attempt to break the world record together for a green legacy," the prime minister's office tweeted on Monday morning. Early Monday, Abiy planted trees in Ethiopia's southern region. According to Farm Africa, an organization involved in forest management in Ethiopia, less than 4% of the country's land is now forested, a sharp decline from around 30% at the end of the 19th century. Ethiopia's rapidly growing population and the need for more farmlands, unsustainable forest use and climate change are often cited as the causes for rapid deforestation.
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