Why Amazon's funding spekboom planting in the Eastern Cape - EWN
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Amazon is funding a massive planting of 180 million spekboom shrubs in the Eastern Cape aimed at restoring degraded land and generating carbon removal credits.
Amazon is funding a massive planting of 180 million spekboom shrubs in the Eastern Cape aimed at restoring degraded land and generating carbon removal credits.
Spekboom has been studied extensively in South Africa for its ability to store carbon in the soil and to remove it from the atmosphere.
The project is expected to create around 11,000 jobs by 2030 and generate over R8-billion in economic value for local communities.
702βs John Perlman asked Ricky Stone, an environmental lawyer at Cullinan and Associates, to explain.
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