Green Ghana Day — Annual National Reforestation with Tracked Multi-Year Survival Rates

Launched in 2021 by Ghana's Forestry Commission and Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Green Ghana Day is a single annual planting day, held every June, in which government agencies, schools, businesses and volunteers plant seedlings nationwide across forest reserves, farms, degraded watersheds, school compounds and public land. The 2024 edition distributed 13,875,286 seedlings, with roughly 60% earmarked for forest reserves.
Unlike a one-off publicity event, the Commission has published year-on-year field survival assessments: 67% of the 7 million trees planted in 2021 survived, 72% of 24 million planted in 2022 survived, and 81% of 10.7 million planted in 2023 survived — an average of 73.3% across roughly 42 million trees planted in the programme's first three editions, according to Lands and Natural Resources Minister Samuel Abu Jinapor.
Between 2021 and 2024 the programme has planted over 50 million seedlings in total. However, an independent December 2025 review by The Business & Financial Times concluded that while visibility and survival rates have improved, Ghana continues to lose forest cover — including inside designated reserves — faster than the programme replaces it, driven by illegal mining (galamsey), logging, agricultural expansion and fires; the review found climate benefits from the initiative are plausible but not yet proven at national scale.

Read the full analysis: https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/ghana-news-73-green-ghana-trees-survive-minister.html