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Pakistan has set a Guinness World Record by planting 541,176 trees in 24 hours. The young mangrove saplings were planted by 300 volunteers on 15 July without using any mechanical equipment in the vast wetlands of the Indus River Delta in Thatta District. The tree-planting reflects Pakistan’s pledge to plant 120 million trees as part of the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Billion Tree Campaign project. Namaste: unep.org.

*opposing expansion of Redwood National Park, 1966