{"id":4212,"date":"2019-07-30T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"over-353-million-seedlings-in-12-hours-ethiopia-breaks-tree-planting-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/30\/over-353-million-seedlings-in-12-hours-ethiopia-breaks-tree-planting-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 353 Million Seedlings In 12-Hours: Ethiopia &#8216;Breaks&#8217; Tree-Planting World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A campaign to plant 200 million young trees in a day has kicked\noff in Ethiopia under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s wider plan to lead the\nplanting of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/05\/27\/ethiopia-pm-launches-4-billion-tree-planting-project-starting-in-oromia\/\">four\nbillion saplings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The July 29 campaign, under Aniy\u2019s \u201cGreen Legacy Initiative\u201d if achieved, will be a world record according to the Guinness Book of World Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Office of the PM said over 100,000,000 young trees had been\nplanted after a six-hour period, which means Ethiopia has already broken the 66\nmillion record set in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final figure of tree seedlings planted according to the\nMinister of Innovation and Technology came up to exactly 353 million, 633\nthousand, 660 in a space of 12-hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said this was the verified of the final figure on\nthe Number of Trees Planted according to the National Steering Committee. To\nmake it onto the World Record, the figures need to be independently verified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not yet clear if the Guinness World Records is monitoring Ethiopia\u2019s mass planting scheme but the prime minister\u2019s office told The Associated Press that specially developed software is helping with the count\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/07\/29\/ethiopia-breaks-world-record-for-tree-planting-in-a-single-day\/\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s wider plan to lead&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}