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Peru Plants Half a Million Trees a Day to Combat Climate Change

January 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Climate Change & Disappearing Glaciers

Here’s some good news for the environment:
According to ANDINA and other news outlets, Peru’s Ministry of Agriculture has initiated an ambitious countrywide tree-planting campaign to counter the effects of climate change.
The project began in December with the goal of planting 40 million trees by February 20. That translates to half a million trees per day or more than 40 million trees [...]

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