Peru plants 512,820 trees per day
by David Masters
January 12, 2009
Across the Atlantic, on the vast continent of America, one country is taking climate change seriously.
Unfortunately it’s not the US (not yet, anyway), but Peru.
Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture has decided to single handedly attempt to mitigate the effects of climate change using a nation-wide tree planting project.
The campaign began on 13th December, and aims to have 40 million trees planted by 20th February.
Forty million trees in three months. That’s the same as 512,820 trees per day. Which is a lot of tree planting.
A workforce of 130,000 people, in fact, with each person planting an average 4.5 trees per day.
Eucalyptus, pine, cypress and pepper trees will be planted in 18 Peruvian regions with suitable soil and rainfall.
Will all this work be worth it?
The Ministry of Agriculture estimates the trees will remove 570,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year.
Well worth it, I’d say.
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Republiscams must be in a tizzy over this news.
Comment by Glog — January 13, 2009 @ 1:22 am
These numbers do not add up! 512,820 divided by 130,000 is very close to 4 trees/day, but the 512k number doesn’t even work when you divide 40 million by the number of days that this program is in action. Not asking for the journalist to be a mathematician but come on!
Comment by Will — January 13, 2009 @ 6:28 am
Uh, there’s no such place as the “vast continent of America.”
The United States of America is on the continent of North America, and Peru is on the continent of South America.
That’s like saying, that The U.K. and Tadjikistan are both on the “vast continent of Asia.”
Comment by The Second Witness — January 13, 2009 @ 2:14 pm