Tanzania, May 22 -- Arusha. The government has unveiled an ambitious plan to restore the country's declining forest cover through a nationwide tree-planting campaign aimed at planting two million trees annually across various regions.

The initiative seeks to reverse the loss of natural vegetation, restore greenery and strengthen the country's resilience against climate change impacts such as rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, changing rainfall patterns and other environmental shocks.

According to statistics from the Tanzania Forest Services (TFS), the country loses an estimated 469,000 hectares of forest and woodland annually.

The alarming rate of deforestation, largely driven by unsustainable agricultural expansion, livestock gr...