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Trees & air quality in Lesotho
How much tree cover Lesotho's major cities have, what their air quality is right now, and how many more trees each one needs. Every report covers the same 2 km area, so the cities compare like for like.
- Cities tracked
- 5
- National forest cover
- 1.1%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- MaputsoeAQI 79
5 cities in Lesotho
Maseru
2 km around Maseru
Tree cover
20%
33.0K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Maputsoe
2 km around Maputsoe
Tree cover
15%
48.1K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Mohale's Hoek
2 km around Mohale's Hoek
Tree cover
30%
1.3K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Mafeteng
2 km radius
Butha-Buthe
2 km radius
Lesotho as a whole
1.1% of Lesotho was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 876.3M trees across 876K hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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