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Indonesia to plant 79 million trees in one day

BOS International congratulate this effort to plant 79 million trees! Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation has been planting trees for 8 years at the Samboja Lestari reforestation project in Borneo. You can help us to plant more trees and support biodiverstiy by purchasing a square metre or more of rainforest through www.create-rainforest.org.

Indonesia, which has destroyed vast tracts of forest, will plant 79 million trees in a single day ahead of the U.N. climate change summit in Bali in December, an official said on Thursday. The event, scheduled for November 28, is part of a global campaign to plant one billion trees launched at U.N. climate change talks in Nairobi last year, said Ahmad Fauzi Masud, spokesman for the forestry ministry.

"Everybody, residents and officials from the lowest unit of the government to the president, will take part in this movement," he said. "It will be a national record and, possibly, a world record."

Indonesia currently holds a far less flattering world record: according to Greenpeace, it had the fastest pace of deforestation in the world between 2000-2005, with an area of forest equivalent to 300 soccer pitches destroyed every hour.

Southeast Asia's biggest economy is also among the world's top three greenhouse gas emitters because of deforestation, peatland degradation, and forest fires, according to a recent report sponsored by the World Bank and Britain's development arm. Environmental groups are concerned that rapidly expanding palm oil plantations, partly driven by ambitious plans for bio-fuels, are damaging the country's rainforests.
Participants from 189 countries are expected to gather in Bali in December to discuss a new deal to fight global warming. The existing pact, the Kyoto Protocol, runs out in 2012. Wetnose has sent £2,500 and will continue to collect donations for BOS Borneo Orangutan Survival.