Getting to the Root Cause: Pakistan Sets Tree Plantation Record

Pakistan chalked up another entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, when 300 volunteers planted 541,176 mangrove saplings on 15 July in the wetlands of the Indus River Delta in Thatta District. This brilliant effort comfortably beat the previous record of 447,874 in a single day held by India. Pakistan has committed to plant 120m trees as part of the UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign and to increase its forest coverage by 1m hectares by 2015. Read the UNEP press release here.