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Trees & air quality in Libya
How much tree cover Libya'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
- 0.1%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- المدينة القديمةAQI 43
5 cities in Libya
Tripoli
2 km around Tripoli
Tree cover
2%
77.3K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Benghazi
2 km around المدينة القديمة
Tree cover
4%
60.7K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Misratah
2 km radius
Zliten
2 km around Zliten
Tree cover
2%
89.2K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Al Khums
2 km around Khoms
Tree cover
2%
70.1K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Libya as a whole
0.1% of Libya was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 52.6B trees across 52.6M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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