Mozambique, whose coasts have been ravaged by rising waves and tropical storms, on Tuesday announced plans to launch Africa's largest mangrove reforestation project, saying it aims to plant up to 100 million trees in 30 years from now.
Significant areas of mangroves on Mozambique's 2,500 km coastline have also been decimated by the harvesting of firewood for charcoal cooking.
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Mozambique's Ministry of Sea and Inland Waters plans to plant up to 100 million trees over the next three decades in the central provinces of Sofala and Zambezia, covering 185,000 hectares of mangrove forests.
“These 185,000 [hectares] are effectively the size of Paris, Manhattan and London combined.
It has never been done on this scale,” said Vahid Fotuhi, whose UAE-based company Blue Forest is backing the project.
The project aims to offset some 200,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year, which would be equivalent to taking 50,000 fossil-fuel cars off the road.
The project will rely in particular on satellite imagery to identify particularly heavily deforested areas.
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