posted by Catherine on Nov 25
There is an opportunity on the horizon to get support for a mass tree planting session!
BBC Breathing Spaces is trying to break a Guinness World Record for ‘the most trees planted in 1 hour in 1 location’ – and they aren’t aiming low! The current world record is 18,124 for this record – and they really want to smash it!
It is part of their drive for National Tree Week in the UK, but you can be from anywhere in the world to help them break a more individual record of ‘the most trees planted in 1 hour in any destination’ – currently standing at 653,143!
The Big Planting:
Basically, they will need your group of at least 100 people (and up to 100 helpers) to aim to plant around 20,000 trees (around 3.33 trees a minute) in the specified hour (between 11am and 12 noon on the 5th of December 2009) - so you will need the land (over 5 hectares) and the trees (all suitable for the environment) already planned!
The great thing is that Breathing Spaces will offer advice and support through the whole thing – so if your local group were planning to improve a woodland or parkland, then now would be a great time to do it.
There are of course strict rules governing your planting attempt – as it is a World Record after all – but you will get all the publicity and advice that could make a real difference to your community or local group.
They have prepared a list of guidelines for larger groups to answer all your questions etc, and they would love to help you break the record!
Not Quite So Big?
If you think that 20,000 trees is a bit too much for your group or community – you can still take part in their main event – planting however many trees you want to plant in the same hour.
This way, if you can only plant 500 trees, 50 trees or just 5 trees, they will all count towards the record attempt anyway – without the stress of the full on planting frenzy as described above!
It’s all about improving the environment and encouraging biodiversity – so literally every tree can make a difference. They would rather you plant 10 trees that you could maintain and would improve the environment, rather than rushed in and planted 50 trees that didn’t all survive or were too overcrowded.
So, get yourself onto their website, read all the guidelines and advice – and get pledging! So far they have had pledges to plant 263,669 trees – way off the current record of 653,143!
Help make a difference – sign up for Tree O’Clock 2009.
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