Great Green Wall (Africa)
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great-green-wall-africa-163-7111005
title:
Great Green Wall (Africa)
text:
The Great Green Wall or Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel is a project adopted by the African Union in 2007, initially conceived as a way to combat desertification in the Sahel region and hold back expansion of the Sahara desert, by planting a wall of trees stretching across the entire Sahel from Djibouti, Djibouti to Dakar, Senegal. The original dimensions of the "wall" were to be 15 km wide and 7,775 km long, but the program expanded to encompass nations in both northern and wester
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description:
African Union project to reverse desertification
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)
date created:
2006-07-16T09:51:46Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T08:31:37Z
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