Posted by: Sandy Steinman | January 4, 2023

The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees 

BBC reports

A man in southern Senegal has set himself the ambitious task of planting five million trees over the next five years.

This visionary project came to Adama Diémé when he returned home to the Casamance region in 2020 after a few years working in Europe.

The 48-year-old was shocked that in villages that were populated with hundreds of gigantic trees in his youth, only a handful, if any, now remained.

Read more The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees – BBC News


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