Target 15: By 2020, ecosystem resilience and the contribution of biodiversity to carbon stocks has been enhanced, through conservation and restoration, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation and to combating desertification.
Deforestation and forest degradation increases at alarming rates where 38% of its forest cover is lost at an annual rate of 400,000 ha. This trend jeopardizes the capacity of forest biodiversity to sequestrate carbon as mitigation and adaptation measures to climate change.