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Ghana aimed to plant at least five million trees in a single day last Friday to help regrow the country’s lost forests and curb the impacts of climate change. The expansion of farming, as well as mining and logging have led to high levels of deforestation in the African country, with forest cover less than one-fifth of what it was in the 1990s. More than seven million tree seedlings were distributed to Ghanaian parks, schools and businesses ahead of Friday's inaugural Green Ghana Day for planting. The government plans for Green Ghana Day to become an annual event, with an ambitious goal of expanding the day’s planting target from five million to 100 million trees by 2024.