Sofiane Lesage, aged 27 at the time of this report, launched an initiative to replant areas damaged by the fires that devastated Algerian forests, particularly in Kabylia. Through Riwaya Travel, his digital agency organising responsible journeys across Algeria, he also aimed to promote the country’s heritage. His goal was to plant a thousand trees before mid-December.
During visits to Tizi Ouzou and El Kala in northern Algeria, the entrepreneur from Setif said he had been deeply saddened to find kilometres of devastated woodland.
In a LinkedIn post, he called on the community to help replant the forests rather than face the same losses each summer.
A Beninese saying holds that a person who has planted a tree has not lived in vain. Sofiane Lesage’s initiative brings to mind Frédéric Back’s film The Man Who Planted Trees, based on Jean Giono’s story.
K. B.
