The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees
Adama Diémé was motivated after seeing once-verdant villages in Senegal without a single tree. …
Across Africa desertification is one of the reasons blamed for deforestation but, in this area, along the sweeping expanse of the Casamance River, the trees are more likely to have been cut down for construction purposes like building houses, or to make charcoal.