The Great Green Wall of Africa

Hi guys.<p>[Shameless plug warning]<p>We at Ecosia (www.ecosia.org) help build this thing. You can help as well by using our search engine and other products.<p>If you have any questions I can probably answer them or ask my team for details.<p>Here you can find some pictures from the planting process: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ecosia.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;109214958355&#x2F;new-project-more-trees-ecosia-has-always-been" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.ecosia.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;109214958355&#x2F;new-project-more-tr...</a><p>I could also provide some more if there&#x27;s interest.

Wondering this amount of extra trees will help with global warming as well.

We learned a lot about how to do this properly from projects like 三北防护林, so hopefully we will succeed.

This sounds like perhaps the biggest geo-engineering project in history. Hope they have good science that it will work as hoped! This is not always obvious. For instance, in the US lot of people have been planting eastern red cedar trees in places like Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, and Colorado for shelterbelts and reforestation. But it seems the tree worsens drought conditions in natural grasslands by capturing available water. And it is vulnerable to fire, but with infrequent wildfires the trees grow large until uncontrollable fires break out. See e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fws.gov&#x2F;mountain-prairie&#x2F;pfw&#x2F;r6pfw15.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fws.gov&#x2F;mountain-prairie&#x2F;pfw&#x2F;r6pfw15.htm</a>

I wonder why Acacia?<p>This plant is not native to Africa, but only from Australian continent. I checked other sources, and found references to &quot;Hardy, drought-resistant acacia trees now dig their roots into 330 miles of northern Senegal&#x27;s Tessekere-Widu rural region. Planting began in 2008.&quot;<p>What are the dangers of planting a foreign tree monoculture without importing the wildlife that supports them? Why didn&#x27;t they use a native African tree?

What keeps people from chopping down the trees and using them for firewood -- why many areas of northern Africa became deforested in the first place?

Frustrating not being able to support this. The planet has a fever and religious US congress members, scynical chinese and russian cleptocrats won&#x27;t do anything.

most people underestimate just how big africa and those numbers are.<p>no offense, but this looks exactly like any other mega development projects put on by white people - see for the road the world food programme has been building from the sea to central congo.<p>super ideas on paper, complete madness on site. most of that money will evaporate, most of the countries along the line are mere shapes on a map, drawn by white people, but reflecting any functioning structures.<p>when the europeans abandoned the colonies they failed to do one, crucial thing - they should have taken everything they brought to africa back with them. borders, names, government structures and yes, most &quot;modern&quot; infrastructure (railway, paved roads, water lines). all that crap left behind now gives western whites the illusion of a transaction between peers when they pour money into africa.<p>this is slowly happening now anyhow, tribal warfare is turning time backwards. from eritrea to sudan, to congo, to nigeria, etc etc etc. tribes that never belonged within one set of borders, drawn up by the english, french, belgians, germans, portuguese.<p>it would be actually much better if the west stopped pouring money into a region were most of it will end up fueling war. more people have died in the so called african world war than in all other conflicts since ww2 - combined. despite white people&#x27;s guilt projects.