Will this be the largest living structure on earth?

These people are changing their future for the better.

http://www.greatgreenwall.org/great-green-wall/#great-green-wall-internal

Will it be successful?

Originally posted by @pawnpaw
These people are changing their future for the better.

http://www.greatgreenwall.org/great-green-wall/#great-green-wall-internal

Will it be successful?

What I read about reforestation is the results are not as good as the ads say it should be. It may lead to a new kind of ecosystem but it cannot rebuild what was once there. The Chinese have already begun that, planting more than a billion trees and they want to reforest an area the size of Germany. The benefits won't be known for decades. It may stop the spread of deserts for sure but making a new ecosystem is not so easy.

Originally posted by @sonhouse
What I read about reforestation is the results are not as good as the ads say it should be. It may lead to a new kind of ecosystem but it cannot rebuild what was once there. The Chinese have already begun that, planting more than a billion trees and they want to reforest an area the size of Germany. The benefits won't be known for decades. It may stop the spread of deserts for sure but making a new ecosystem is not so easy.

Can't find it at the moment (and I might be dreaming)
but didn't Libya have a reforestation programme?

Thought there was a massive irrigation system planned
for Sahara and also synthetic "trees" that caught night
dew and released it periodically to produce rain.

Or was that a sci-fi story? 😞

Going back to the link, I picked up the following remark: We're growing a reason to stay for millions of Africans set to emigrate to Europe...