GUINNESS RECORD BREAKING INSPIRES MASSIVE SOUTH ASIAN TREE PLANTINGS
August 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONTESTS between India and Pakistan to set the Guinness World Record for hand-planting trees in one day is leading to millions of trees being planted in a region where deforestation has been a serious problem.
The efforts are being noted by the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) 'Billion Tree Campaign' which has a target of planting 7 billion trees worldwide by this December. In June, India's 21 JAT army regiment planted 447,874 trees in the Shrigram Reserve Forest in Assam. But this effort was superseded in July by the Pakistan environment ...
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