66 million Trees planted in 12 hours, Well Done India

1.5 Million Volunteers Plant 66 Million Trees in 12 Hours, Breaking Guinness World Record



The central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh set a new Guinness World Record on Sunday after 1.5 million volunteers planted more than 66 million tree saplings in just 12 hours along the Narmada river.

Last year volunteers in Uttar Pradesh state set a world record by planting more than 50 million trees in one day.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, boasted the achievement: "I am extremely proud to happily share that people of Madhya Pradesh successfully planted 6.63 Crore saplings today." One crore is 10 million.

India committed under the Paris Agreement to increasing its forests by five million hectares before 2030 to combat climate change.


Observers from Guinness World Records also monitored Sunday’s(2nd July 2017) plantation and are expected to confirm in the coming weeks that the effort set a new high.

The campaign was organized by the Madhya Pradesh government, with 24 distracts of the Narmada river basin chosen as planting sites to increase the saplings’ chances of survival. Volunteers planted more than 20 different species of trees.

 

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Environment Day

‘Connecting People to Nature’, the theme for World Environment Day 2017, implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to protect the Earth that we share.

World Environment Day is the biggest annual event for positive environmental action and takes place every 5 June. This year’s host country Canada got to choose the theme and will be at the centre of celebrations around the planet.

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Every World Environment Day has a different global host country, where the official celebrations take place. This year it is Canada.
World Environment Day is an important part of Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations. As part of the festivities, Canada offers free passes for its national parks throughout 2017.

There is a penis museum in Reykjavik.

Per capita Iceland has the highest number of book and magazine publications and 10% of the country’s population will publish a book in their lifetimes. 

A majority of Icelanders believe in elves. 

Size: 103,000 sq. km (40,000 sq. miles), bigger than Hungary and Portugal and a little bit smaller than Cuba. 
Population:332,529 (1 January 2016 estimate)
Density : 3.2/km²                     
           

GDP $63,000 (Per Capital Nominal)

Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, is the northernmost city of any sovereign state in the world.

It doesn’t get that cold though. Average temperature in Reykjavik in January is just about the same as in New York.


There is no railway system of any sort in Iceland.


There is a penis museum in Reykjavik. It contains a collection of penises from over 200 different mammals, including one from a man.

Iceland is one of the Nordic countries and part of Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).

There are no forests in Iceland.

Icelandic people love eating ice cream even though temperatures are well below zero.


Icelanders watch more movies than any other nation.

Iceland does not have an army, navy or air force.

Hekla is Iceland's most active volcano; Hekla is also a common female name in Iceland.

Mosquitoes do not exist in Iceland.

The Icelandic police don’t carry guns. Crime in Iceland is very low and violent crime is practically nonexistent.

Top 10 Countries By Largest Forest Area

List of Top 10 Countries With Largest Forest Area

 

 

Suriname:

Highest Percentage of Land Covered in Jungle . With 91% of its land covered in jungle, Suriname’s half-a-million residents live primarily along the coast near the capital. Only 5% of the population (mainly indigenous people) live inland.

Mongolia: Least Densely Populated

Libya: 

Country Covered with the Highest Percentage of Desert : With 99% of the country covered in desert, Libya is one of the most arid places in the world and in some regions decades may go by without a single drop of rain.


Haiti: 

Mongolia

Almost Entirely Treeless – : On the opposite end of the spectrum is Haiti, a country that has been so badly deforested that you can tell where it borders the Dominican Republic by looking at a satellite image.


Mongolia:
Least Densely Populated At 4 people per square mile, Mongolia is the least densely populated country on Earth.  

Suriname:
Highest Percentage of Land Covered in Jungle . With 91% of its land covered in jungle, Suriname’s half-a-million residents live primarily along the coast near the capital. Only 5% of the population (mainly indigenous people) live inland.
 
Greenland is unable to join FIFA because the ground there can’t grow a grass field.
The country of Nauru does not have a capital city.

Sudan has more than 200 pyramids, more than the number of pyramids found in Egypt.


San Marino has the highest amount of automobiles per people in the world.

A 2010 study found that the tiny nation of San Marino, which is located entirety within Italy, had 1,139.06 cars per 1,000 people — the only nation in the study, in fact, that had more cars than citizens.

Nigeria has the highest rate of twin births in the world.

In Denmark, citizens have to select baby names from a list of 7,000 government-approved names.

In Bhutan, wearing seat-belts in a car is considered dangerous.

Residents fear belts will trap them in their vehicles if their cars fall off one of the country’s plentiful 20,000-plus mountains.

In Malaysia, authorities prohibited its people from wearing yellow clothing.


Ethiopia follows a calendar that is seven years behind the rest of the world.


In Japan, you can hire a handsome man to watch sappy movies with you and wipe away your tears.

In Germany, breaking plates is a very famous way to celebrate a couple’s approaching marriage.

Valentine's Day is also National Condom Day in the U.S.

The largest and smallest countries in the world are in Europe, Russia and Vatican.

Switzerland forbids late-night trips to the bathroom and flushing the toilet paper after 10 pm to avoid the noise pollution.

Every year in Finland, people compete to see who can carry their wives fastest and farthest.

Wealthy people in china can hire their doubles to serve their life prison.