{"id":58314,"date":"2019-07-31T07:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T07:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58314"},"modified":"2019-07-31T07:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T07:24:39","slug":"under-a-new-green-initiative-ethiopia-plants-more-than-350-million-trees-in-just-12-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/07\/31\/under-a-new-green-initiative-ethiopia-plants-more-than-350-million-trees-in-just-12-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Under a new green initiative, Ethiopia plants more than 350 million trees in just 12 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Setting a new world record, Ethiopia planted over 350 million trees in a mere 12-hour period on Monday. The mass tree planting in the country is part of a bigger &#8216;green legacy&#8217; initiative undertaken by the government under which it aims to plant 4 billion trees between May and October 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed created the initiative to help restore Ethiopia&#8217;s landscape, which experts say is being eroded by deforestation and climate change. Ahmed, who took part in the tree planting festivities, congratulated those involved for surpassing the initial goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, less than 4% of the Ethiopia&#8217;s land is forested \u2014 a sharp decline from about 30% at the end of the 19th century, according to Farm Africa, which is involved in Ethiopia&#8217;s forest management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ethiopia-plants-350-million-trees-12-hours-breaking-world-record-2019-07-30\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ethiopia-plants-350-million-trees-12-hours-breaking-world-record-2019-07-30\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ethiopia-plants-350-million-trees-12-hours-breaking-world-record-2019-07-30\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting a new world record, Ethiopia planted over 350 million trees in a mere 12-hour period on Monday. The mass tree planting in the country is part of a bigger &#8216;green legacy&#8217; initiative undertaken by the government under which it aims to plant 4 billion trees between May and October 2019. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58314","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\/58314","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=58314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}