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A phenomenal tree planting day 22 SEPT
Sep 25, 08 7:15:24 AM - Mika Vanhanen

 Our start on Tonga Islands

 ENO Tree Planting Day - 24 hours planting trees around
the world by kids


ENO Programme organised a special tree planting day for schools and children/youth groups around the world. Schools planted trees at noon local time, on the 22nd of September 2008. Trees were planted for the environmental protection and peace. The day also united us as it's the day for equinox. The length of the day is the same everywhere, with everyone worldwide receiving 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. As the international day for peace falls a day before, this is also our contribution for peace.

This 24-hour event started in a massive way on Tonga islands where all the 170 primary schools planted  around  30 000 trees. Following the Sun, new trees were put to earth in Asia, Europe and Africa. Finally this chain of trees reached Americas. The event ended on Samoa islands where the last trees were planted.  Planet Earth had rotated on its axis.  

Over 1 500 schools in 121 countries registered and made a pledge of altogether 300 000 trees.  This event was a part of tree planting campaign, its aim is to plant 100 million trees by 2017 when Finland will celebrate its 100th anniversary.

The event website: http://www.enotreeday.net 
Trees on the map /database: http://eno.joensuu.fi/treedatabase.htm

 

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Mauri Åhlberg
Mauri Åhlberg - September 30, 08 9:47:14 AM Europe/Helsinki

A very big problem with his kind of approach is what kind of trees are planted. It is not the same whether they are fast e.g. growing  Eucalyptus-species or local perhaps slower growing species. Foreign species often destroy and damage local biodiversity. For identification and learning about sustainable use of biodiversity, about ecosystem services, about sustainable debelopment, there ought to be more biological  knowledge and understanding both locally and globally.

NatureGate® online service has been created for these kinds of issues in mind. Further information:

http://www.naturegate.net

 http://cmc.ihmc.us/cmc2008papers/cmc2008-p801.pdf

 

 

 

Mika Vanhanen
Mika Vanhanen - October 4, 08 10:12:42 AM Europe/Helsinki

 If Mauri would read more carefully about our tree planting day and the instructions he would notice that we ask people to plant indigenous trees.  I agree 100% about the problem of non-indigenous species and am happy about Nature Gate and other services available.

 

www.enotreeday.net

 
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