South Sudan Seeks to Plant 20m Trees

South Sudan has set an ambitious target of planting 20 million trees in ten years in a bid to mitigate negative impacts of climate change, a senior official said Wednesday.

Joseph Bartel, undersecretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, said deforestation in the country has reached alarming levels due to charcoal burning and illegal timber trade.

He said under the new guidelines, regional provinces would be asked to plant two million trees each and residents in urban required to plant five trees in their residential plots.

“In our environment management plan, we are going to plant 20 million trees in ten years and each of the ten former states are going to plant two million different species of trees,” Bartel said.

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Leonora (Ellie) Enking

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