Launching a forest planting program to join hands in preventing desertification

The area of dry, arid land, desertification has expanded by 4.3 million square kilometers (equivalent to ⅓ of the area of India). Every year, the world loses 12 million hectares of fertile land to desertification, affecting the food security and lives of about 1.3 billion people on Earth. It is predicted that 90–95% of global land will be degraded by 2050 if no action is taken.

Responding to the International Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2025 with the theme "Restoring Land. Opening Opportunities", in the context of Vietnam aiming to plant 1 billion trees and restore 15 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, Gaia Nature Conservation Center launched the program "Contribute 1 Tree, Contribute Ta Kou Forest" calling on businesses and communities to join hands to plant forests on coastal sandy land to prevent desertification. This is the only option to restore the journey before the harshness of nature and climate change.

In 2024, Gaia planted nearly 8,000 trees covering more than 6.7 hectares of desert land. After a year of miraculous forest planting, the survival rate of the forest in year 1 reached 77%. This is a positive sign of revival in greening the Ta Kou desert forest.

Planting Ta Kou forest helps restore depleted forests, improve forest ecological values such as CO2 absorption, respond to climate change, protect water resources, mitigate the impact of natural disasters such as sandstorms, droughts and create a safe and healthy home for rare species such as: Truong Son silvered langur, little slow loris, long-tailed macaque, pig-tailed macaque, red-faced macaque, black-shanked douc langur...

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