{"id":43202,"date":"2019-07-31T15:11:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=43202"},"modified":"2019-07-31T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:11:37","slug":"ethiopia-breaks-world-record-by-planting-over-350-million-trees-to-fight-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=43202","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia breaks world record by planting over 350 million trees to fight climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- m -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5751019935\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Climate change is a dire problem plaguing the world, but Ethiopia is not going to stand around and do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The country just broke the world record by planting more than 353 million trees in 12 hours to tackle the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Part of an initiative titled, \u2018Green Legacy\u2019, the tree planting that took place on Monday was spearheaded by the country\u2019s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed. Within the first six hours, Ethiopians around the country had already planted 150 million trees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re halfway to our goal,&#8221; he said, &#8220;build on the momentum in the remaining hours.&#8221; At the end of the day, the minister of innovation and technology, Getahun Mekuria took to Twitter to share the news that a total of 353,633,660 tree seedlings had been planted.<\/p>\n<p>While this may seem like a big enough victory on its own, Ethiopia\u2019s campaign has actually set out to plant around 4 billion trees between May and October, which is the country\u2019s rainy season. Since it is landlocked and much of its population depends on agriculture as a livelihood, the effects of climate change have hit the African country hard.<\/p>\n<p>The last country to attempt a world record similar to this was India in 2017; 1.5 million volunteers planted 66 million trees in 12 hours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING NEWS!!<\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5511153269\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>ETHIOPIA PLANTED<br \/>\n353,633,660 TREE SEEDLINGS IN 12Hours<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GreenLegacyEthiopia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GreenLegacyEthiopia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMOEthiopia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#PMOEthiopia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TewfqNzXMN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TewfqNzXMN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr.-Ing. Getahun Mekuria (@DrGetahun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrGetahun\/status\/1155866965774405633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 29, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GreenLegacy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GreenLegacy<\/a> is a vision for the next generation. It is creating a blueprint for them and showing them the way. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GreenEthiopia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GreenEthiopia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HealthyEthiopia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#HealthyEthiopia<\/a> ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TFudQhiAKc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TFudQhiAKc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amir Aman, MD (@amirabiy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amirabiy\/status\/1155771473178570753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 29, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"5\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 5 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9258826580\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/culture\/6403\/ethiopia-breaks-world-record-by-planting-over-350-million-trees-to-fight-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 3 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2884989920\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Climate change is a dire problem plaguing the world, but Ethiopia is not going to stand around and do nothing. The country just broke the world record by planting more than 353 million trees in 12 hours to tackle the crisis. Part of an initiative titled, \u2018Green Legacy\u2019, the tree planting that took place &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43204,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43202\/revisions\/43204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}