China's Reforestation Programs: Big Success or Just an ...
Jan 17, 2012· Initiated in 1978 and slated to continue until 2050, the Three Norths Shelterbelt Development Program — informally called the "Great Green Wall" — was designed to eventually plant nearly 90 million acres of new forest in a band stretching 2,800 miles across northern China. That could make it the largest ecological restoration project ...