{"id":57128,"date":"2018-08-01T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T06:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57128"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T06:34:59","slug":"pakistans-future-prime-minister-aims-to-plant-10-billion-trees-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/08\/01\/pakistans-future-prime-minister-aims-to-plant-10-billion-trees-in-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s future Prime Minister aims to plant 10 billion trees in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former cricketer and Pakistan&#8217;s next Prime Minister Imran Khan has pledged to plant 10 billion trees across the country in the coming 5 years. The country presently has a dismal 2.2% forest cover, raising concerns that it could run out of forests if rapid deforestation is not stopped immediately.<\/p>\n<p>This ambitious pledge builds on Khan&#8217;s Billion Tree Tsunami, a reforestation project that added 350,000 hectares of trees in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between 2014-2017. The aim was to restore the region&#8217;s depleted forests and fight the effects of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Solheim, the head of the United Nations&#8217; Environment Program, praised the new tree-planting program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good to see this strong message from @ImranKhanPTI to plant 10 billion trees! Pakistan is one of the countries at the frontlines of climate change,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/pakistans-prime-minister-plant-10-billion-trees-2591203191.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/pakistans-prime-minister-plant-10-billion-trees-2591203191.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former cricketer and Pakistan&#8217;s next Prime Minister Imran Khan has pledged to plant 10 billion trees across the country in the coming 5 years. The country presently has a dismal 2.2% forest cover, raising concerns that it could run out of forests if rapid deforestation is not stopped immediately. This ambitious pledge builds on Khan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}