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2009

Volunteers from Pakistan set new tree planting world record, July 16 ^[2] With 541,176 young mangroves trees planted by 300 volunteers from the local fishermen communities just in one day, the total broke the previous 447,874 record held by historical rival India. The mangrove tree planting event was held in the vast wetland ecosystem of the Indus River Delta in the Southern Sindh Province, some 150 km south east from Karachi a unique sanctuary of biodiversity designated in 2002 by the Government of Pakistan as a Ramsar Site (Wetland of International Importance), with support from WWF International Freshwater Programme.

Billion Tree Campaign passes four billion mark, on way to target of seven billion trees planted by the end of 2009, June 2 ^[3]

Extensive forest fires are affecting several of Kenya's key moisture reservoirs including the 400,000-hectare Mau Forest Complex, Kenya's largest forest and the source of water for at least twelve rivers. , March 25^[6] Important Rift Valley Lakes, including Lake Victoria, the source of the River Nile, depend on the rivers which are fed from the forest. Noor Hassan Noor, the Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner said that between 25 and 35 per cent of the eastern Mau forest has been lost so far as a result of the fire. place

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2008

Eliasch Review on International deforestation shows "a dangerous lack of ambition and vastly underestimates the scale of the action needed to tackle climate change", Greenpeace, October 14 ^[7] "... allowing forests to become a get out of jail free card for the big polluters would be extremely bad news for the fight against climate change."

2007

The only way to save the rainforest is to save the Indians, by recognising their land rights, says Brazilian shaman. October 10 ^[8] "...you want to buy pieces of rainforest, or to plant biofuels. These are useless. The forest cannot be bought; it is our life and we have always protected it. Without the forest, there is only sickness, and without us, it is dead land. The time has come for you to start listening to us. Give us back our lands and our health before it’s too late for us and too late for you." Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, winner of the UN Global 500 award, who is traveling to London and Germany, to launch a report by Survival about the crisis in indigenous peoples’ health. Research from Survival shows that more than 162 million hectares of the Amazon rainforest - over 15,000 times more rainforest than is involved in the Cool Earth scheme - have already been secured – through their protection as indigenous territories. Research by Brazilian and USA scientists shows that the most effective way to stop logging in the Amazon is to protect Indian lands, which occupy one fifth of the Brazilian Amazon. But the lands of many tribes remain unprotected.

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2008

Greenpeace unveils Forests for Climate plan to halt the destruction of rainforests by 2015, May 20 ^[12]

Billion tree campaign to grow into the seven billion tree campaign, May 13 ^[13]

2007

Uttar Pradesh attempting to set a world record by planting 10 million trees in a single day, July 31 ^[14] place

Urgent action needed to save the world's forests - UK Minister for Biodiversity, Landscape and Rural Affairs, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, June 1

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