Kanadas 2-Milliarden-Bäume-Programm geriet in Schwierigkeiten. Sein Verlust schmerzt immer noch.

I thought this article was really interesting, since I know nothing about the forestry industry. My two highlights:

>The federal government defends the cancellation as a necessary part of reducing expenses, and the new budget points to ongoing investments in “sustainable forest management.” One billion already-contracted trees will still be planted as the initiative concludes.

and:

>Other countries have led the way in this regard, seeing promising results and proving that socioeconomic improvements and tree planting can go hand in hand. Ethiopia’s ambitious and successful effort to plant 50 billion trees generated 767,000 jobs for nursery managers, forestry agents and seasonal workers. Malawi, the first African country to develop a national forest-restoration strategy, in 2017, has linked restoration targets directly to improved food security and reduced poverty.

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I don’t really know if the project could ever have been saved from being a massive boondoggle, but it’s interesting to hear the side of the industry making their own economic argument about the losses of jobs at private businesses. Or hearing the argument about the necessity of planting trees given that 8% of Canada’s territory has been decimated by wildfires in the past 3 years and can no longer regenerate naturally.