Monitoring Tree Cover and Enhancing Decision Making Tools Across Africa’s Great Green Wall
In the drylands of Africa, land degradation threatens the livelihoods of millions of people. Fortunately, there are promising initiatives emerging all over the continent turning the tide. Throughout the Sahel, for example, local communities are restoring vast tracts of land along the Great Green Wall.
But outside dense forests, medium-resolution satellite data cannot detect where those trees are growing back across the Sahel’s drylands and open-canopy forests. From field-collected data to remote sensing imagery, robust monitoring data gives credit to the impressive and often overlooked community-led restoration efforts across countries of the Great Green Wall. How can this innovative data accelerate regreening progress across Africa? And how can cohesive monitoring systems and decision-making tools track restoration at national levels? Join BothEnds, OSS, CILSS, and WRI for a virtual streaming of this UNCCD COP15 side event to learn how restoration monitoring can accelerate regreening progress. The session will also feature a special data release on Trees in Mosaic Landscapes in the Sahel.
This event will be streamed virtually from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, in English with live interpretation in French. We also welcome you to join in person from the UNCCD COP15 Rio Conventions Pavilion, MET-07, at the Hotel Sofitel Ivoire.
Projects
Global Restoration Initiative
WRI is partnering with governments, businesses, and communities around the world to restore millions of hectares of deforested and degraded land.
Part of ForestsAfrican Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)
Restoring 100 million hectares of deforested and degraded land in Africa by 2030.
Part of Forest and Landscape Restoration