{"id":278588,"date":"2019-06-10T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMigQFodHRwczovL2ZvcmVzdHNuZXdzLmNpZm9yLm9yZy82MTAzNS9naGV0dG8tY2hpbXBzLTQtYmlsbGlvbi10cmVlcy1mb3ItZXRoaW9waWEtd2hpbGUtYW1hem9uLWRlZm9yZXN0YXRpb24tYWNjZWxlcmF0ZXMtZmFzdD9mbmw9ZW7SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:02","slug":"cifors-forests-news-noted-ethiopias-plan-to-plant-about-4-billion-trees-during-the-rainy-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278588","title":{"rendered":"CIFOR\u2019s Forests News noted Ethiopia\u2019s plan to plant about 4 billion trees during the rainy season"},"content":{"rendered":"

In June 2019 the Center for International Forestry Research\u2019s Forests News roundup highlighted Africa News reporting that Ethiopia aimed to plant about 4 billion trees\u2014roughly forty trees per person\u2014under a National Green Development drive launched by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for the rainy season.<\/p>\n\"CIFOR\u2019s\n

The same CIFOR digest placed that Ethiopian tree campaign beside faster Amazon deforestation under Brazil\u2019s then-new government and other forest stories, so readers could see Ethiopia\u2019s planting target in a wider global forest news week.<\/p>\n

Kept as environment archive, the Forests News note dates how international forestry media recorded Ethiopia\u2019s mid-2019 billion-tree planting goal.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> CIFOR Forests News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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