The campaign started on 1 June in the 31 regions of the country led to the planting of “5.3 million of trees is 300 000 plants per day”, according to the official report.
The ivorian authorities have introduced Saturday in Yamoussoukro, the balance sheet of an ambitious planting over 5 million trees by 2020 to combat deforestation, after planting in 2019 of more than a million trees.
“This year 2020 is marked by a more ambitious, entitled ‘a day, five million trees'(…) that solidifies our commitment and our commitment to meeting the challenges of the preservation, the rehabilitation and expansion of forests”, said the ivorian minister of Water and forests, Alain Richard Donwahi, at a ceremony in the ivorian capital.
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“through this operation of planting trees (…) we want to demonstrate that the bet for the Ivory Coast to recover its forest cover is certainly ambitious, but is within our reach,” said Alain Richard Donwahi, who has the opportunity to put in the ground the seedlings of teak, eucalyptus and fig trees.
The campaign started on the 1st of June in all the 31 regions of the country, in the rainy season, led to the planting of “5.3 million of trees is 300 000 plants per day”, according to the official report.
13 million hectares of forest lost in the 1960s
The operation wants to issue a warning about the deforestation that has caused them to lose the country almost all of its forests in fifty years. First global cocoa producer with 40% of the market, the Ivory Coast, which had 16 million hectares of forests in the 1960s, have seen their surface area to melt at three million hectares, according to official figures, in particular because of the development of the cocoa plantations.
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The global warming, natural disasters, soil depletion and population migration have also contributed to the disappearance of forest cover.
The new forest policy of côte d’ivoire seeks to recover “the six million hectares in 2030, representing 20% of the national territory and an increase of 3 million hectares of forests”.
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The first operation, launched in November 2019 was able to plant 1.1 million trees, according to the ministry of Water and forests, recognizing the “great enthusiasm and the strong mobilization of the populations in favour of the rehabilitation of the forest of côte d’ivoire”.
