The Department of Natural Resources in an internal memo acknowledges cabinet’s 2019 promise to plant two billion trees within a decade was faked. “Two billion trees” was picked as an inspirational slogan and should not be taken literally, it said: “I can’t give an exact date on when the two billion trees will be planted exactly.”
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