{"id":71800,"date":"2019-07-31T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=71800"},"modified":"2019-07-31T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:28:00","slug":"ethiopia-plants-more-350-million-trees-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/ethiopia-plants-more-350-million-trees-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Plants More Than 350 Million Trees in a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong><em>Planting spree, which officials say is a world record, is part of a campaign to fight deforestation and climate change.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Ethiopians have planted more than 350 million trees in a single day as part of a campaign to fight deforestation and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Getahun Mekuria, Ethiopia&#8217;s minister of innovation and technology, said 353,633,660 seedlings were planted in 12 hours on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The planting spree, which surpassed the initial&nbsp;goal of 200 million trees planted in one day,&nbsp;will be a world record, officials said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Prime Minister&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/abiy-ahmed-turned-ethiopia-man-show-190401222240311.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abiy Ahmed<\/a>&#8216;s&nbsp;ambitious Green Legacy Initiative, launched in May, aims to plant four billion trees across Ethiopia by October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">&#8220;Today,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/ethiopia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethiopia<\/a>&nbsp;is set in our attempt to break the world record together for a green legacy,&#8221; Abiy&#8217;s office said in a Twitter post on Monday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"et\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GreenLegacy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GreenLegacy<\/a> in Wolayta Soddo<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%A8%E1%8A%95%E1%8C%93%E1%8B%B4%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%BB%E1%88%AB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u12a0\u1228\u1295\u1313\u12f4\u12a0\u123b\u122b<\/a> \u1260\u12c8\u120b\u12ed\u1273 \u1236\u12f6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMOEthiopia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMOEthiopia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qnl9sj547j\">pic.twitter.com\/qnl9sj547j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Office of the Prime Minister &#8211; Ethiopia (@PMEthiopia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMEthiopia\/status\/1155757837395660800?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><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Some schools and government offices were closed for the occasion and Abiy&nbsp;told fellow Ethiopians to &#8220;go out and make your mark&#8221;, as he planted his own tree in the southern city of Arba Minch.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopians have planted more than 350 million trees in a single day as part of a campaign to fight deforestation and climate change.&nbsp;Getahun Mekuria, Ethiopia&#8217;s minister of innovation and technology, said 353,633,660 seedlings were planted in 12 hours on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":71801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1031],"tags":[3],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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