Reforestation projects to restore degraded lands in Chad and Cameroon, like the “Great Green Wall” and the “Reforestation 1400” projects, are facing increasing pressure from logging activity.
MOKOLO, Cameroon — The sun is already beating down this morning, a Saturday in July, at Mansour-Sabongari village.project. The project helped regreen the village’s landscape in northern Cameroon, a savannah with a very hot desert climate — much to the delight of local residents. A “Reforestation 1400” reforested site in Mansour-Sabongari in Cameroon, now the pride of local residents. Image by Yannick Kenné.
Despite the notable progress of these projects, they still face significant challenges from various pressures, such as corruption, excessive tree felling for charcoal and wood production, as well as frequent bush fires. These factors represent significant threats to these reforested sites meant to combat the effects of deforestation and desertification in the first place.
Although the Great Green Wall initiatives began with a vision of a green barrier to stop desertification, over the years it has faced criticism over itson the continent. In Chad, the project aims to restore a grand 46 million hectares of degraded land and store millions of tonnes of carbon to fight climate change, but has only restored about 1.2 million hectares — or 2.6% of the total restoration area, project officials tell Mongabay.
Wood fuel is the main energy source for Chadian households, the vast majority of whom have limited income to afford domestic gas especially in the midst of inflation. The fight against tree felling is a challenge for the Chadian government authorities, despite the existence of acarried out by the United Nations Development Program , reveal that 88.6% of Chadian households use wood as their main energy source for cooking, and 10.9% use charcoal.
Green charcoal is an alternative to wood cutting in dry savannah areas but remains a small-scale and unsustainable solution. Image by Yannick Kenné. “We have not been able to carry out our field activities and haven’t been able to pay agents’ salaries since 2017,” she says. “This situation has seriously affected operational capacities and implementation of activities in the field.”
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