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Filipino Students, Others Plant 3.2 million Trees In 1 Hour

A new Guinness World Records has been set in the Philippines by a team of volunteers that planted 3.2 million trees in one hour.

A new world record has been set in the Philippines after a team of students and other volunteers planted a whooping 3.2 million trees within an hour.

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Officials say this feat trumps the current figure in the Guinness World Records, set in August 15, 2011 when 1.9 million trees were planted.

It took an army of 160,000 people, mainly students, civil servants and other volunteers.

Philippines' Regional Environment Director Marc Fragada told AFP that the trees were planted in six different areas on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.

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“Our official count is about 3.2 million trees in one hour. But we are still getting reports. We still have to prepare the packaging of documentary evidence (for Guinness),” he said.

Fragada said the trees included a mix of forest varieties and commercial crops like cocoa, coffee and rubber.

“They were chosen by the planters in hopes that the local people will take good care of them because it will be part of their livelihood."

They are now waiting for Official certification from Guinness World Records.

“Based on our count, we have planted more (than India) but whether the record is broken, only Guinness can say that,” Fragada said

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Philippines is trying to recover its forest cover which has been depleted in recent times due to development, logging and slash-and-burn farming.

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