Senegal Begins Planting the Great Green Wall Against Climate Change
A grand vision that will be awfully hard to implement
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guardian.co.uk Workers water the Widu tree nursery in Senegal’s Louga region, part of the Great Green Wall, a lush 15km (10 mile) wide strip of different plant species, meant to span the 7,600km from Senegal to Djibouti to halt desertification. Photograph: Seyllou Diallo/AFP/Getty Images While in some ways this sounds …