#greatgreenwall

[biophonies]

new thing for new business cards: some lush future Africa, de colon1zed & self determined, where the great green wall has grown thick and steady & date palms & mango trees could maybe share canopies, adapting to the new weather patterns & all hope is not lost

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[montrosebiology]

Our new game “Drylands” is now available! ⠀ (Link in our bio) ⠀ Set in Africa’s Sahel region, the game uses Africa’s “Great Green Wall” as its backdrop. ⠀ The Great Green Wall is a multinational project aimed at planting a continuous belt of trees across Africa to stop the spread of desertification. ⠀ Drylands are fragile ecosystems where deserts border savanna and/or forest biomes. These places can easily be degraded into desert like conditions or nurtured to be greener and more productive. It depends on how the land is managed. ⠀ In this two player game the desert player competes with the forest player to decide the outcome of a small section of drylands. ⠀ The gameplay and strategy is abstract, reminiscent of Othello, Go, or Reversi, where the objective is to flip opponent tiles. ⠀ Each turn players can “grow” by placing a new tile next to their established tiles, or they can “leap” using an existing tile to move to a location farther away. ⠀ Whenever you place one of your tiles next to opponent tiles, either through growing or leaping, those opponent tiles flip and become yours. ⠀ This is made slightly more complicated by one-way barrier tiles (rivers and mountains) that block the path of players. Forest tiles can leap over rivers, but not mountains. Desert tiles can leap over mountains, but not rivers. ⠀ A game that’s easy to learn but hard to master, it is suitable for a wide range of ages, from 5 to 105. ⠀ In the box is a large quad fold game board and five rigid tile sheets (20 tiles per sheet = 100 tiles total) You actually only need 4 tile sheets to play the game, but we included an extra sheet of tiles because we know small pieces are easy to lose and we wanted players to have plenty of extra tiles just in case. ⠀ For this project we worked with an amazing artist named Celt Duk. @celt.duk.fine.art ⠀ ⠀ #drylands #boardgames #tabletopgames #montrosebiology #greatgreenwall #sahel #nature #science #desertification #art #education #homeschool #scienceteacher #biology #ecology #games #goblincore #cottagecore #gamenight #beautiful #forest #illustration #sciencegames #fun #curriculum #plants #biome #ecosystem #africa #desert (at Greenville Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl9uwG3rqWY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[manishdarandalepatil]

Reposted from @timberland_eu Our climate is in crisis. That's why we are planting 50 million trees over the next five years. And why we're partners in the new film 'The Great Green Wall'. Timberland hero for nature @innamodjaofficiel, a Mali-born musician & activist, takes us on an epic journey along Africa's #GreatGreenWall. This ambitious vision aims to grow an 8,000km "wall" of trees stretching across the entire width of Africa to restore land and provide a better future for millions of people. Join the movement. 🎥Watch the Full Trailer on our IGTV 🍿 #NatureNeedsHeroes #Timberland #TheEnvironmentalBoy https://www.instagram.com/p/CNM2EPjHPDu/?igshid=1ads6trl8iwul

[onyebuchiblog]

#Greatgreenwall #gogreen #Earthday #greenearth #onyebuchiblog Interesting part of human activities on earth (at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5X1D62BR5-/?igshid=2nlm8l96k52u

[arvoresertecnologico]

A "Grande Muralha Verde" (Great Green Wall) é uma barreira vegetal de 15km que se estenderá por mais de 7000 km, do Senegal ao Djibuti, em um plano conjunto de 20 países africanos contra a desertificação e degradação (http://goo.gl/DyIZ28). O continente africano já enfrenta o agravamento da crise hídrica e suas consequências no abastecimento humano e agricultura. Lá, em menos de 4 anos, projeções mostram que entre 75 e 250 milhões de pessoas enfrentarão escassez de água. No mesmo ano, em alguns países os rendimentos da agricultura podem ser reduzidos pela metade (http://goo.gl/Bdjos3). Saiba mais sobre o papel das florestas na transformação do modelo de exploração predatória por uma economia verde na África (relatório em inglês: http://goo.gl/QwVfXl). Como as economias dos países africanos são altamente dependentes de recursos naturais, a capacidade de gerar crescimento no futuro dependerá do que acontece com os recursos-chave como florestas.

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[senegallife]

Comment: venturethree said "Meeting some very inspiring people in #senegal and finding out how the #greatgreenwall will make life better for them and millions of others. Find out more on our site #green #climatechange #sparkprogress"

[anguyener21]

Another Great Wall in China

According to the latest Nature Climate Change study, there has been a huge increase in vegetation that has been planted since 2003, a large contribution to this effort has been from China.  The amount that has been grown can consume up to 4 billion tons of carbon, which is progress but not enough since there is still about 60 billion tons of carbon that is present on the Earth that is doing more harm than good.  It is satellite surveillance that has been monitoring this significant biomass growth. Although planting more is a step in the right direction, it is still strongly believed that eliminating the dependence on fossil fuels remains the best way to resist climate change.

To find out more about this story, check out this link: http://gizmodo.com/chinas-great-wall-of-trees-is-helping-reverse-deforesta-1700429787