{"id":225019,"date":"2019-07-29T22:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=225019"},"modified":"2019-07-31T19:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:54:19","slug":"ethiopia-plants-more-than-200-million-trees-in-1-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/29\/ethiopia-plants-more-than-200-million-trees-in-1-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia plants more than 200 million trees in 1 day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PM Abiy calls upon everyone in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethiopia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethiopia<\/a> to go out and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PlantYourPrint?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlantYourPrint<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMOEthiopia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMOEthiopia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/leQdUBv849\">pic.twitter.com\/leQdUBv849<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Office of the Prime Minister &#8211; Ethiopia (@PMEthiopia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMEthiopia\/status\/1155720172696670211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia \u2014 Ethiopians planted more than 200 million trees on Monday, which officials stated will be a world record. The ambitious initiative of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed aims to help restore the country&#8217;s landscape which experts say is fast being eroded by deforestation and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate announced more than 224 million trees were planted on Monday, surpassing the initial goal of 200 million trees planted in one day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday Ethiopia is set in our attempt to break the world record together for a green legacy,\u201d the prime minister&#8217;s office tweeted on Monday morning. Early Monday, Abiy planted trees in Ethiopia&#8217;s southern region.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia is in the midst of a tree planting campaign in which it aims to plant 4 billion trees between May and October. Agriculture officials stated that so far more than 2.6 billion trees have been planted in almost all parts of the East African nation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Farm Africa, an organization involved in forest management in Ethiopia, less than 4% of the country&#8217;s land is now forested, a sharp decline from around 30% at the end of the 19th century. Ethiopia&#8217;s rapidly growing population and the need for more farmlands, unsustainable forest use and climate change are often cited as the causes for rapid deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to ordinary Ethiopians, various international organizations and the business community have joined the tree planting spree which aims to overtake India&#8217;s 66 million trees planting record set in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet clear if the Guinness World Records is monitoring Ethiopia&#8217;s the mass planting scheme but the prime minister&#8217;s office told The Associated Press that specially developed software is helping with the count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Abiy calls upon everyone in #Ethiopia to go out and #PlantYourPrint. #PMOEthiopia pic.twitter.com\/leQdUBv849 &mdash; Office of the Prime Minister &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":225020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54365,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-elias-meseret","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225021,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225019\/revisions\/225021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}