Olympic Forest – Mali and Senegal
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About the project
The Olympic Forest works with cash-poor local communities on the front line of climate change and seeks to restore the local environment by preventing desertification and enhancing economic resilience.
Tree Aid is working with communities across Africa to grow trees and restore land in support of the Great Green Wall movement. This African-led initiative envisages an 8,000km mosaic of restored land across the Sahel that will transform the lives of millions living on the frontline of the climate crisis.
The Olympic Forest aims to contribute to the Great Green Wall through three means: the restoration of degraded, wooded savannah, restoration of farmland, and the sequestering of CO2. Use of enrichment planting and agroforestry over 2,120ha land between Mali and Senegal will support these goals, as will improved community land management.
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