Inside one country’s ambitious campaign to plant 50 billion trees

NBC News reports: There are no new alerts at this time ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Business is booming on the small patch of land where Eyasu Debela and four friends run a store by the side of the road selling tree seedlings for people to plant. The stock in their tree nursery on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, spans more than 15 varieties, from avocado and mango to olive and rosemary, and shoppers are flocking in as people in Africa’s second-most populous nation embrace one of the largest tree-planting campaigns the world has ever seen. “People are encouraged to plant seedlings.

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