The El Verde Project breaks a world record for tree planting.

Global reforestation efforts got an amazing boost when the El Verde Project in the Philippines started their 12 million trees by 2012 project by setting a new Guinness world record for planting the most trees simultaneously.

On February 23rd 2011 6893 volunteers gathered in the Philippine province of Camarines Sur to plant 64096 trees See confirmation on the Guinness world records website and the Guiness world records blog about the world record event Volunteers included President of Philippines Noynoy Aquino AKA Benigno Aquino III, Provincial Governor of Camarines Sur Luis Raymund Villafuerte, fire, police and hospital services, judges, politicians, businesses and thousands of other locals.

Another YouTube video about El Verde event

And another video on YouTube about the El Verde event

Province of Camarines Sur is in the Philippines with a population of about 1 ½ million people See the Camarines Sur website and See the Wikipedia entry With such natural wonders as Mt. Isarog and an indigenous tribal people called the Agta, it is a beautiful place to visit.

Governor Villafuerte was happy to promote the benefits of tree planting.  “The El Verde project combines biodiversity conservation, economic development and a climate change adaptation strategy to help reverse the rate of deforestation in the province.” “We want to teach our people the importance of saving the environment and how they can help as active stakeholders,” Villafuerte said.

The El Verde project has inspired families living in Camarines Sur to get involved in the planting and maintenance of the saplings in their early years. The families are partnered with an area of land with at least 2500 new trees planted and asked to nurture them. In return extra food is distributed to them, along with extra health and education benefits.

El Verde is inviting business and individual sponsorship to help address climate change through reforestation. Please help make a difference and get in touch with El Verde Contact details for El Verde

A Collection of photos showing the El Verde Tree Planting Volunteers

Photos from Boom Dayupay

More Reforestation efforts around the world.

The El Verde initiative blends in well with the United Nations acknowledged 2011 is the International Year of Forests Find out more about The International Year of Forests 2011

Another great reforestation initiative headed by Professor Wangari Maathai and HSH Albert II, Prince of Monaco is The Billion Tree Campaign that has facilitated a world changing 11 billion trees to be planted. Read more about The Billion Tree Campaign

The inspirational Boris Trajanov helped to initiate ‘Tree Day’ in Macedonia in August 2007 Macedonia Tree Day Since then the Macedonia people have planted over 20 million trees. Watch a video of Boris Trajanov talking about ‘Tree Day’

The world record for trees planted in 1 hour by 100 people or less is 26422 trees. That’s an average of 264 trees each person in one hour! See the Guinness World Records Website for Confirmation If half of the world’s population planted trees at the same rate for just 1 hour 883 billion trees would get planted.

“Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth’s environmental dilemma.” Dr. Richard St. Barbe-Baker Watch Video Of Dr. Richard St. Barbe-Baker on YouTube HERE

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