By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban
A campaign to plant 200 million young trees in a day has kicked off in Ethiopia under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s wider plan to lead the planting of four billion saplings.
The July 29 campaign, under Aniy’s “Green Legacy Initiative” if achieved, will be a world record according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Office of the PM said over 100,000,000 young trees had been planted after a six-hour period, which means Ethiopia has already broken the 66 million record set in India.
The final figure of tree seedlings planted according to the Minister of Innovation and Technology came up to exactly 353 million, 633 thousand, 660 in a space of 12-hours.
The Minister said this was the verified of the final figure on the Number of Trees Planted according to the National Steering Committee. To make it onto the World Record, the figures need to be independently verified.
It is not yet clear if the Guinness World Records is monitoring Ethiopia’s mass planting scheme but the prime minister’s office told The Associated Press that specially developed software is helping with the count…Read more>>
