MOROGORO, July 11 -- THE Vice-Presidents Office has commended environmental stakeholders, including the Tanzania Forest Services Agency (TFS), for restoring 3.3 million hectares of degraded forest and land by December 2024, marking significant progress towards the countrys restoration target.

Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Vice-Presidents Office (Union Affairs), Mr Abdalah Mitawi, made the remarks while opening a national workshop in Morogoro aimed at strengthening the capacity of the National Task Force on Forest and Landscape Restoration.

He said Tanzania pledged in 2018 to restore 5.2 million hectares of degraded forests and landscapes by 2030 under the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100).

To assess progress,...