In June 2019 the Center for International Forestry Research’s Forests News roundup highlighted Africa News reporting that Ethiopia aimed to plant about 4 billion trees—roughly forty trees per person—under a National Green Development drive launched by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for the rainy season.
The same CIFOR digest placed that Ethiopian tree campaign beside faster Amazon deforestation under Brazil’s then-new government and other forest stories, so readers could see Ethiopia’s planting target in a wider global forest news week.
Kept as environment archive, the Forests News note dates how international forestry media recorded Ethiopia’s mid-2019 billion-tree planting goal.
Sources: CIFOR Forests News