China the root of tree goal
By Huang Xiangyang and Fu Jing | China Daily | Updated: 2009-09-23 08:21
|
Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, patron of the Billion Tree Campaign, and Felix Finkbeiner, an 11-year-old boy from Germany who leads the Plant for the Planet initiative, at an event to mark the Billion Tree Campaign on Monday. Huang Xiangyang |
NEW YORK: Nearly 2.6 billion trees have been planted in the past year in China, one of the main reasons that the UN-sponsored Billion Tree Campaign has sprouted to its goal of planting 7 billion trees two months ahead of schedule.
Photo
