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Ethiopia Says It Planted Over 350 Million Trees in a Day, a Record - The New York Times
Local : 2019-07-30(Tuesday) 17:25:24
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/world/africa/ethiopia-tree-planting-deforestation.html
Ethiopia Says It Planted Over 350 Million Trees in a Day, a Record
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Ethiopia aims to plant four billion seedings by the fall.CreditCreditOffice of the Ethiopian Prime Minister
By Palko Karasz
Students, farmers, urban professionals, foreign dignitaries, environmentalists and government officials planted millions of seedlings on Monday, in what the government said was the largest one-day tree-planting effort in history.
It was part of Mr. Ahmed’s campaign to plant four billion trees in Ethiopia before the fall to combat deforestation and global warming.
Office of the Prime Minister - Ethiopia
✔@PMEthiopia
https://twitter.com/PMEthiopia/status/1154386325082136576
PM Abiy Ahmed met with @WFPChief to discuss further strengthening support to #Ethiopia. WFP have been engaged in food security & nutrition, and early warning & climate action among other focal areas. The two planted seedlings as part of the #GreenLegacy initiative. #PMOEthiopia
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3:42 PM - Jul 25, 2019
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Many schools and government offices were closed for the day, as students and civil servants were urged to take part in the program, which was supported by several international aid groups.
UN Environment in Africa@UNEnvironmentAf
https://twitter.com/UNEnvironmentAf/status/1155841753557213184
#Ethiopia began its National Tree Planting compaign to plant 200M trees a day. @UNEnvironment supports the campaign 2 reach 4 billion trees as response to fight land degradation & climate change @SDG2030 #GreenLegacyEthiopia
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4:05 PM - Jul 29, 2019
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The figures could not be verified, but they far exceed the previous record. That is held by the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which in 2016 planted more than 50 million trees in one day, according to Guinness World Records.
Bitania Lulu Berhanu@bitania_lulu
https://twitter.com/bitania_lulu/status/1155911453775413251
I did my share to #PlantMyPrint and leave a #GreenLegacyEthiopia
Such an exciting campaign that went beyond expected!
Well done #Ethiopia on breaking the record of planting over 353 million trees in just a day!
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8:42 PM - Jul 29, 2019
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On balance, the planet’s forests continue to shrink at an alarming rate, but reforestation campaigns have picked up momentum around the world, recognized as a powerful tool to fight climate change, habitat loss and erosion. After losing much of its forest cover, China has set out to be the world leader in expanding it, and most countries have signed onto an array of ambitious tree-planting campaigns.
The Earth Day Network has called for planting 7.8 billion trees on Earth Day next year — one for every living person.
Worldwide, about 900 million hectares of land — almost 3.5 million square miles, nearly the area of the United States — is not being used by people and could support forests, according to a recent study by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, ETH Zurich, that drew intense interest from environmentalists worldwide.
If trees were planted on all of that land, the study said, when they matured they could store about two-thirds of all the carbon that human activity has pumped into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
In the early 20th century, about one-third of Ethiopia was covered in forests, according to historical estimates, but that had dropped to just 4 percent by 2000, according to the United Nations. The country’s population has soared to more than 100 million people, about five times as many as it had in 1960 — growth that has increased demand for farmland and timber, contributing to deforestation.
From 1990 to 2015, Ethiopia lost 2.6 million hectares of forest, or more than 10,000 square miles, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Agency.
Ethiopia is among the nations taking part in the United Nations’ decade-old campaign against deforestation.
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Organizations like Farm Africa have been working on management of forests with people in Ethiopia and other countries who depend on them for their livelihoods.
Farm Africa has supported farmers in Bale Province in developing forest-compatible trades like beekeeping, producing essential oils and making bamboo furniture, and using fuel-efficient stoves to reduce their dependence on firewood.
Chinese, can you please make a tree planting machine? You seem to be good with bridges and railroads.
We here in the west are unlikely to be able to copy what these good people just pulled off, and we do need to replant forests as well on a large scale.
- Ethiopia Says It Planted Over 350 Million Trees in a Day, a Record The New York Times
- Ethiopia plants more than 350 million trees in 12 hours CNN
- Ethiopia plants world-record 350 million trees in 12 hours, officials say Fox News
- Ethiopia plants more than 350 million trees in a day Al Jazeera English
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Local : 2019-07-30(Tuesday) 17:25:24
Found via seductiveapps.com/news
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/world/africa/ethiopia-tree-planting-deforestation.html
Ethiopia Says It Planted Over 350 Million Trees in a Day, a Record
Image
Ethiopia aims to plant four billion seedings by the fall.CreditCreditOffice of the Ethiopian Prime Minister
By Palko Karasz
- July 30, 2019
Students, farmers, urban professionals, foreign dignitaries, environmentalists and government officials planted millions of seedlings on Monday, in what the government said was the largest one-day tree-planting effort in history.
It was part of Mr. Ahmed’s campaign to plant four billion trees in Ethiopia before the fall to combat deforestation and global warming.
Office of the Prime Minister - Ethiopia
✔@PMEthiopia
https://twitter.com/PMEthiopia/status/1154386325082136576
PM Abiy Ahmed met with @WFPChief to discuss further strengthening support to #Ethiopia. WFP have been engaged in food security & nutrition, and early warning & climate action among other focal areas. The two planted seedlings as part of the #GreenLegacy initiative. #PMOEthiopia
727
3:42 PM - Jul 25, 2019
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215 people are talking about this
Many schools and government offices were closed for the day, as students and civil servants were urged to take part in the program, which was supported by several international aid groups.
UN Environment in Africa@UNEnvironmentAf
https://twitter.com/UNEnvironmentAf/status/1155841753557213184
#Ethiopia began its National Tree Planting compaign to plant 200M trees a day. @UNEnvironment supports the campaign 2 reach 4 billion trees as response to fight land degradation & climate change @SDG2030 #GreenLegacyEthiopia
152
4:05 PM - Jul 29, 2019
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87 people are talking about this
The figures could not be verified, but they far exceed the previous record. That is held by the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which in 2016 planted more than 50 million trees in one day, according to Guinness World Records.
Bitania Lulu Berhanu@bitania_lulu
https://twitter.com/bitania_lulu/status/1155911453775413251
I did my share to #PlantMyPrint and leave a #GreenLegacyEthiopia
Such an exciting campaign that went beyond expected!
Well done #Ethiopia on breaking the record of planting over 353 million trees in just a day!
25
8:42 PM - Jul 29, 2019
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See Bitania Lulu Berhanu's other Tweets
On balance, the planet’s forests continue to shrink at an alarming rate, but reforestation campaigns have picked up momentum around the world, recognized as a powerful tool to fight climate change, habitat loss and erosion. After losing much of its forest cover, China has set out to be the world leader in expanding it, and most countries have signed onto an array of ambitious tree-planting campaigns.
The Earth Day Network has called for planting 7.8 billion trees on Earth Day next year — one for every living person.
Worldwide, about 900 million hectares of land — almost 3.5 million square miles, nearly the area of the United States — is not being used by people and could support forests, according to a recent study by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, ETH Zurich, that drew intense interest from environmentalists worldwide.
If trees were planted on all of that land, the study said, when they matured they could store about two-thirds of all the carbon that human activity has pumped into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
In the early 20th century, about one-third of Ethiopia was covered in forests, according to historical estimates, but that had dropped to just 4 percent by 2000, according to the United Nations. The country’s population has soared to more than 100 million people, about five times as many as it had in 1960 — growth that has increased demand for farmland and timber, contributing to deforestation.
From 1990 to 2015, Ethiopia lost 2.6 million hectares of forest, or more than 10,000 square miles, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Agency.
Ethiopia is among the nations taking part in the United Nations’ decade-old campaign against deforestation.
Women Rewriting the Rules of Reporting in the Arab World
You Can Read Yuval Noah Harari’s Book in Russian, Except for the Parts About Russia
For Years, Alcohol Was My Only Comfort. Then It Nearly Killed Me.
Organizations like Farm Africa have been working on management of forests with people in Ethiopia and other countries who depend on them for their livelihoods.
Farm Africa has supported farmers in Bale Province in developing forest-compatible trades like beekeeping, producing essential oils and making bamboo furniture, and using fuel-efficient stoves to reduce their dependence on firewood.
Chinese, can you please make a tree planting machine? You seem to be good with bridges and railroads.
We here in the west are unlikely to be able to copy what these good people just pulled off, and we do need to replant forests as well on a large scale.
