Green Options » Yanachaga Chemillen National Park http://greenoptions.com/tag/yanachaga-chemillen-national-park Posts tagged 'Yanachaga Chemillen National Park' Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:00:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Peru Planting 512,820 Trees a Day to Fight Climate Change http://ecoworldly.com/2009/01/11/peru-planting-512820-trees-a-day-to-fight-climate-change/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/01/11/peru-planting-512820-trees-a-day-to-fight-climate-change/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:00:38 +0000 Levi Novey http://ecoworldly.com/2009/01/11/peru-planting-512820-trees-a-day-to-fight-climate-change/ Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture has launched an ambitious project. The goal: plant 40 million trees in 3 months to help deter the effects of climate change.

According to Peruvian news source Andina, the Ministry hopes to complete the project by February 20th of this year. They started working on December 13th of last year. That will mean that an average of 512,820 trees will be planted each day over a three month period– an astounding and inspiring example for other countries to follow around the world.

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