Launching a reforestation program to jointly combat desertification.

(PLVN) - According to reports from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), over the past 30 years (1990-2020), approximately 77.6% of the world's land area has become drier.

The area affected by drought and desertification has expanded by an additional 4.3 million square kilometers (equivalent to one-third of India's land area). Each year, the world loses 12 million hectares of fertile land due to desertification, impacting food security and the lives of approximately 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.

In response to the 2025 International Day for Combating Desertification and Drought, themed “Restoring Land. Opening Opportunities,” and in the context of Vietnam aiming to plant 1 billion trees and restore 15 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, the Gaia Nature Conservation Center is launching the “Contribute One Tree, Contribute to the Ta Kou Forest” program, calling for the joint efforts of businesses and communities to plant forests on coastal sandy land to prevent desertification. This is the only option to restore the land in the face of harsh natural conditions and climate change.

In 2024, Gaia implemented a reforestation project, planting nearly 8,000 trees to cover more than 6.7 hectares of desert land. After a year of planting, a miraculous reforestation achievement showed a 77% survival rate in the first year. This is a positive sign of the revival and greening of the Ta Kou desert forest.

The Ta Kou reforestation project helps restore degraded forests, improve forest ecological values ​​such as CO2 absorption, climate change adaptation, water resource protection, mitigation of natural disasters such as sandstorms and droughts, and create a safe and healthy home for rare species such as the Truong Son silver langur, slow loris, long-tailed macaque, pig-tailed macaque, red-faced macaque, and black-footed langur...

Hoa Bui

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