C&AG: Targets to plant 8,000 hectares of trees a year need to be changed

Targets to plant 8,000 hectares of trees a year, comprising 22 million trees, need to be readjusted as the Department of Agriculture is regularly failing to achieve this, according to the annual report from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

A climate action plan set out in 2019 proposed increasing the amount of tree cover across the country to 18% by 2050.

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