More than 80% of young plants die in Mauritania
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on KassatayaOur method
In Mauritania, more than 80% of young plants die, while restoration campaigns highlight areas replanted and numbers of plants put in the ground. Kassataya, drawing in particular on observations from programme stakeholders, denounces the lack of public monitoring of their survival and the use of Great Green Wall funding.
More than 80% of young plants die in Mauritania, Kassataya reports, highlighting a blind spot in environmental policies linked to the Great Green Wall, the pan-African programme to restore degraded land.
Official campaigns regularly announce thousands of hectares restored and millions of plants put in the ground, but public monitoring rarely records how many trees have died. According to Kassataya, this high mortality rate raises questions about both the continuity of environmental policies and the monitoring of plantations.
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