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UN recognizes ongoing restoration work inside Ethiopia’s Desa’a forest amid conflict

MONGABAY · Elodie Toto ·

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On Oct. 29, 2026, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recognized the Desa’a project, an initiative to restore Ethiopia’s forests in the Great Rift Valley, as a World Restoration Flagship during the U.N. Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia. “It is to inspire others to take action and revive nature,” Doreen Lynn Robinson, deputy […]

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