African Experts Call for Funding to Restore Degraded Forests, Land
Investing in forest and landscape restoration as well as ensuring their sustainability will improve livelihoods of African people, experts have said.
Speaking at a two-day Forest and Landscape Investment Forum in Kigali, yesterday, the experts called for investments to make green cover of more than 100 million hectares of degraded forests and land on the continent.
The forum is in line with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15 - that calls for halting and reversing land and natural habitat degradation; and the Bonn Challenge - to restore 350 million hectares of the world's deforested and degraded land by 2030.
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