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India plants 67 million trees in 12 hours, breaking world record

by Daily Sabah

ISTANBUL Jul 03, 2017 - 12:00 am GMT+3
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by Daily Sabah Jul 03, 2017 12:00 am

More than 1.5 million people planted an average of 44 trees each over the course of 12 hours Sunday in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, breaking the Guinness world reforestation record.

Students, homemakers and civil servants planted some 66,750,000 tree saplings across 24 districts.

The previous record was held by another Indian state, Uttar Predesh, which planted 50 million saplings in a day in July 2016. Citizens in the state of Kerala planted more than 10 million in 24 hours in June this year and Maharashtra is set to plant 40 million this year as part of a nationwide reforestation campaign spearheaded by the government.

Deforestation in India is a major issue with its growing population of 1 billion people in need of more living space and agricultural land. Cutting trees also increases flood risk in a country that experiences substantial annual rainfall.

The government of India pledged to reforest 950,000 square kilometers by 2030 at a cost $6.2 billion at the 2015 Paris Climate Change Summit.

"The world talks of global warming and climate change, but Madhya Pradesh has taken a concrete step to deal with it," State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.

According to a 2015 study by the Food and agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 1.29 million square kilometers of the world's forests have been cut down since 1990.

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