Green Frontiers: Stories of Environmental Success in East Africa

Ethiopia – Green Legacy Reforestation

Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative has continued mass tree-planting campaigns through 2025, mobilizing citizens across rural and urban areas to restore degraded land and enhance climate resilience. While the programme’s official planting totals vary annually, it remains one of the region’s most sustained reforestation efforts, pairing community action with national policy to improve ecosystem health. 1