- Dec 20, 2019
The Great Green Wall Initiative : stocktaking after over a decade
By Chloe Mcenery Beacham Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new wall is being created that unites, not divides - the Great Green Wall. An African Union initiative to combat the depredations of desertification of the Sahara and Sahel region, the 15km wide ‘barrier’ of land being restored from Senegal to Djibouti is helping transform the lives of millions of people, and ecosystems, on the frontlines of climate change. Source: John Kappler, National Geographic
