The World's Biggest Tree Planting Project: 60 Million Mangroves

Treehugger reports from Senegal:

Up to 35% of the world's mangrove forests have been lost since 1980, many of them along the fragile African coast, and the numbers keep shrinking. They won't, if tens of thousands of Senegalese have anything to do with it.Over the past three years, the dynamo Senegalese NGO Oceanium - helped by financial backing from French water company Danone - has employed thousands of local villagers to take back the swamps.Last year, they planted over 30 million mangrove trees. This year, they're redoubling their efforts: the target is a record 60 million trees in three months.