Billion Trees in Desert
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The <Billion Trees in Desert> campaign was launched by Future Forest on May 15, 2009 in the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia, China to encourage public participation in combating desertification. Based on its initial success in building Great Green Wall, a 15km-long windbreak made of millions of desert poplars and sand willows, Future Forest in association with the All-China Youth Federation initiated it as a global campaign to better address the land degradation and desertification issue.
The campaign targets to stop expansion of deserts and rehabilitate degraded land by planting one billon trees in deserts all around the world. It urges people to pay more attention to the voice of land which is suffering from consequences of indiscreet and unsustainable development.
A desert pine tree donated from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2008 was planted as the first tree of the campaign.
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is also committed to this campaign.
