Pakistan Plants the Most Trees in a Day
Friday, July 17, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Friday, July 17, 2009
Pakistan managed to break India's record on Wednesday -- and found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records -- by planting the largest number of trees in a single day. The feat was achieved in a frenetic exercise in Keti Bundar, on the Indus Delta, where a staggering 541,176 saplings were planted in a single day by some 400 trained workers, amid much fanfare from officials of the Sindh forest department and environmentalists. It goes without saying that this is a welcome and positive initiative. Pakistan's once thriving mangrove forests along its coasts have been rapidly depleting due to a combination of factors, including the construction of dams and human intervention. Mangroves not only serve as a nursery for shrimps and other fish, which constitute one of the country's major exports, but also act as a natural barrier to calamities such as floods and tsunamis.
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Pakistan managed to break India's record on Wednesday -- and found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records -- by planting the largest number of trees in a single day. The feat was achieved in a frenetic exercise in Keti Bundar, on the Indus Delta, where a staggering 541,176 saplings were planted in a single day by some 400 trained workers, amid much fanfare from officials of the Sindh forest department and environmentalists. It goes without saying that this is a welcome and positive initiative. Pakistan's once thriving mangrove forests along its coasts have been rapidly depleting due to a combination of factors, including the construction of dams and human intervention. Mangroves not only serve as a nursery for shrimps and other fish, which constitute one of the country's major exports, but also act as a natural barrier to calamities such as floods and tsunamis.
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