{"id":192569,"date":"2025-03-01T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-why-freetowns-celebrated-tree-planting-scheme-wont-work-for-other-african-cities-or-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:07:55","slug":"sierra-leone-why-freetowns-celebrated-tree-planting-scheme-wont-work-for-other-african-cities-or-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-why-freetowns-celebrated-tree-planting-scheme-wont-work-for-other-african-cities-or-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Why Freetown&#8217;s Celebrated Tree Planting Scheme Won&#8217;t Work for Other African Cities, or the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">More than a million trees have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/257177\/mayor-freetown-urban-resilience-climate-adaptation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been planted<\/a> in the city of Freetown in Sierra Leone since 2020. This reforestation scheme, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OPfVCUGxyHs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;FreetownTheTreeTown&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/earthshotprize.org\/winners-finalists\/freetown-the-treetown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been celebrated<\/a> for its innovative approach to climate action, with ambitious plans to plant another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infrahub.africa\/case-studies\/freetownthetreetown-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 million trees by 2030 and 20 million more by 2050<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">A global network of mayors known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c40.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C40 Cities<\/a> and other urban development experts have called this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c40knowledgehub.org\/s\/article\/Freetown-s-highly-replicable-way-of-self-financing-urban-reforestation?language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a &#8220;highly replicable&#8221; solution<\/a> for environmental crises across urban Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502280018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a million trees have been planted in the city of Freetown in Sierra Leone since 2020. This reforestation scheme, known as &#8220;FreetownTheTreeTown&#8221;, has been celebrated for its innovative approach to climate action, with ambitious plans to plant another 5 million trees by 2030 and 20 million more by 2050. A global network of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,4380,9558,9613,13481,6572,257,17239,10688,11079,6571,1135,254,10450,7462,6100],"class_list":["post-192569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-celebrated","tag-cities","tag-freetowns","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-planet","tag-planting","tag-scheme","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tree","tag-wont","tag-work"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}