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Nonprofit plants 80,000 trees in Kenya and Rwanda

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The name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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Trees face extinction, too. What can we do about it?

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Logging, invasive pests, disease, forest clearance and other types of habitat loss all threaten tree species. Central and South America lead in number of tree species, followed by tropical parts of Southeast Asia and Africa. Nor is climate change helping.