Singapore to Plant One Million Trees by 2030 to Protect Its Future | Waking Times

Claire Turrell, Mongabay
Waking Times – Oct 15, 2020

Languishing in the soft, silty mud, the living fossil looked as if it didn’t have a care in the world as it feasted on the fish left stranded in the tidal mangrove pools of the Sungei Buloh wetlands. However, the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) might have been a little less at ease if it knew nearly 90% of its mangrove habitat in Singapore has been lost over the past century.

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The Result of a Brazilian 20-Year Reforestation Project of Over 2.7 Million Trees — Humans Are Free – January 31, 2019

The mammoth project has planted saplings of more than 290 species of trees, and seen the return of many species of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and insects.
The project serves as a beacon to awaken awareness of the need to restore and conserve forest land.
This project is the result of an ambitious initiative taken in the late 1990s by renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado…..Read more

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Ecuador Holds World Reforestation Record for Planting 647,250 Trees in a Single Day – May 27, 2017

Anna Hunt, Staff  Writer Waking Times A record set by the people of Ecuador is one of the most impressive in the Guinness Book of World Records still stands. In just one day in 2015, thousands of volunteers from around the country planted 647,250 trees in over 150 locations. Deforestation Ecuador is one of the country’s…

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