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.
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.
