Pakistan in tree planting record

[bananas]

Source: BBC

A team of volunteers in Pakistan has set a new world record by planting more than half a million trees in one day.

Guinness World Records confirmed that 541,176 trees had been planted in the southern province of Sindh on 15 July.

Some 300 volunteers, working in groups, planted mangrove saplings in the 750 acres of the Indus river delta region.

They beat the previous team record for tree planting which was set in India just last month when 447,874 saplings were planted in Assam state.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8154120.stm

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1. Pakistan cooking charcoal futures market sees price plunge

In other news, cooking charcoal prices in Pakistan plunge.

Experts attritube the large drop in charcoal prices used for cooking fires in rural Pakistan to a large influx of young trees that suddenly hit the market from various locations and harvested by the largely poor illiterate peasants that truck them to the rural areas to be used for fuel.

[The Second Stone]

2. This is a Indian/Pakistani rivarlry

that I can get behind.

[Posteritatis]

3. They plant trees, and then we plant more and bigger trees..

Until someday someone, deep in their madness, plants a tree so big it will kill us all - ... no, wait.

Yeah, I can get behind this too, then.

[ohio2007]

11. "Mr president,...we can't afford a tree sapling gap" nt

[kentauros]

16. "I have a plant...

"Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!"

:D

[Vidar]

12. Thanks for the chuckle.

[InfiniteThoughts]

6. completly agree ... though i should add ..

that i also love India/Pak Cricket rivalry as well.

Shout to Indian NGOs - How about 600k plantings?

This way, both India & Pakistan can look at reforestation measures to arrest the massive deforestation in the subcontinent ...

[xchrom]

4. ...

:applause:

[Wilms]

5. I can dig that! n/t

[progressoid]

7. Some good news from a place lacking in good news lately.

[mopinko]

8. one thing i still hold a grudge against bill clinton for-

he knew global warming was coming. i agree that his hands were tied for the most part. but he sure the hell could have been out there planting trees. americorp should have been out there planting trees.

[kentauros]

18. And International Paper should have been planting hemp

over all their clear-cuts with the little "beauty strips" left in place so you can't see the barren landscape from the highway...

[central scrutinizer]

9. record?

Depends on how the "record" is defined. Back in the 1970's, I worked as a tree planter in Oregon. Our worker-owned cooperative, the Hoedads, had over 300 people working. And we were only one company. On a good weather day in spring, there might have been several hundred tree planters working, just in Oregon and many of these workers could do 1000 trees per day. Thus, I am sure that there were days when way over a half-million trees were planted in a single day in Oregon. When you add in Washington and California, the total would be much greater.

[PufPuf23]

10. Many little Green Rosettas

I worked for the USFS from 69 to 85 in timber management and the districts where I worked would contract plant 1 million to over 2 million trees each year during a 4 to 6 week planting season. Hi Hoedad!

[central scrutinizer]

13. what districts?

my career, if you can call it that, spanned '73-'84, mostly on USFS land. Maybe we have met?

[PufPuf23]

14. Six Rivers and Shasta-Trinity NFs in R-5 nt

I was silviculturist on Weaverville RD when I quit but worked 12 years on Six Rivers on Orleans RD.

[central scrutinizer]

15. probably not then

I rarely worked in CA - a couple of times around Hume Lake in the Sequoia NF and once around Shasta but not in your areas.

[PufPuf23]

19. I appreciate good tree planters and Zappa fans.

kudos to you.

[joshcryer]

17. This reminds me of the parable called "The Man Who Planted Trees"

It was also made into a crayon-stylized animation. Quite great.