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Africa’s green & blue wealth - The continent's central role in a global

24 Nov 2022

They include the Cape Floristic Region, the Eastern almost one quarter Afromontane, the Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa, the Guinean Forests of West Africa, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands, the Maputaland- of the world’s 36 Pondoland-Albany Hotspot, the Mediterranean Basin, the Horn of Africa, biodiversity hotspots and the Succulent Karoo. [...] around 1/6 of the • One quarter of the world’s mammal species and the last significant world’s remaining assemblage of large mammals, one fifth of the world’s bird species, forests and at least one sixth of the world’s plant species. [...] than the total carbon Over half of the carbon is stored within the forests of the DR Congo – the fourth largest forest carbon reservoir of any country in the world. [...] Africa is home to the • Six out of the world’s 66 large marine ecosystems: the Agulhas Current, second-largest and the Somali Current, the Benguela Current, the Canary Current, the Guinea longest rivers and Current and the Mediterranean. [...] Overall, in 2019 travel and tourism in Africa contributed a total of 7.1% to Gross Great Green Wall Domestic Product The project of the Great Green Wall, planting 8,000 km of trees (GDP), as well as 24.6 spanning the entire width of Africa to restore land, was born in the 1970s when the Sahel started to degrade and gained momentum million jobs in the 1980s.
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