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Trees & air quality in Western Sahara
How much tree cover Western Sahara'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
- 3
- National forest cover
- 12.9%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- LaayouneAQI 120
3 cities in Western Sahara
Laayoune
2 km around Laayoune
Tree cover
1%
108K
trees needed
to reach 35%
Dakhla
2 km around Dakhla
Tree cover
0%
73.3K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Boujdour
2 km radius
Western Sahara as a whole
12.9% of Western Sahara was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 7.6B trees across 7.6M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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