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A Big Tech-backed campaign to plant trees might have taken a wrong turn
Is a popular reforestation campaign planting trees in the wrong places?
The paper, published in the journal Science today, takes stock of AFR100, an initiative endorsed by 34 governments in Africa and that counts the Bezos Earth Fund and Meta among its major funders. “Even if the Gambia is a member of the AFR100 that small country cannot pledge 4 million hectares,” Teko Nhlapho, communications officer for the African Union Development Agency that co-launched AFR100, said in the email. The Verge also reached out to the World Resources Institute (WRI), a nonprofit organization named in the paper that uses the definition of forests as having 10 percent canopy cover and that maintains an atlas of areas it sees as ripe for restoration.
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