Guinness Reforestation Record in 2015 for Ecuador

By Liliana Usvat    
Blog 365-365

You often hear saddening statistics about the rate of deforestation from ecologically-minded friends and the news, but how often do you hear about the good that is being carried out to reverse environmental damage?

On May 16, 2015, thousands of people gathered to volunteer and reforest the Earth. They planted 220 different species of flora on almost 5,000 acres of land, setting a new Guinness World Record.

President Rafael Correa said the seedlings were planted all over Ecuador, which boasts varied geography from its Pacific coast, high Andean peaks and low Amazon basin areas.
 
Environment Minister Lorena Tapia said on Twitter that 44,883 people planted the trees on more than 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) of land.

Guinness Records adjudicator Carlos Martinez, said hundreds of varieties were planted as part of the mass reforestation effort.
 

National Reforestation Day, also named “Siembratón”, was an initiative from the Minister of Environment Lorena Tapia to “show Ecuador is committed to the protection of the environment” and invite citizens to become positive contributors in the process, Tapia said. 

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National Reforestation Day, also named “Siembratón”, was an initiative from the Minister of Environment Lorena Tapia to “show Ecuador is committed to the protection of the environment” and invite citizens to become positive contributors in the process, Tapia said. 

This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: 
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National Reforestation Day, also named “Siembratón”, was an initiative from the Minister of Environment Lorena Tapia to “show Ecuador is committed to the protection of the environment” and invite citizens to become positive contributors in the process, Tapia said. 

This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: 
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"There is no record in history of similar events involving over 150 species,"

"I want to beat it once a month so the planet will be full of trees in very little time, which is what we need."

The Philippines holds the record for the most trees planted in an hour, with 3.2 million seedlings sown last September as part of a national forestation program.
 
Scientists believe planting trees helps offset carbon buildup in the atmosphere, as they absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen, helping to reduce global warming.

Ecuador holds several other world records, including the most plastic bottles recycled in one week.


 

Consciousness of a Tree

By Liliana Usvat    
Blog 364-365

The inner senses of the tree have a strong affinity with the properties of the earth itself.
They feel their growing, as you listen to your hearth bit.

They also experience pain which while definite unpleasant and sometimes agonizing,  is not an emotional nature in the same way that you might feel pain.  

A tree knows human beings also, by the vibrations in the air as they pass, which hit the tree trunk from varying distances and even by such things as voices. The tree does not build up an image of man but a composite sensation which represents an individual. 

The same tree will recognize the same person who passes it by each day.  

Trees have their own consciousness. The consciousness of a tree is not as specifically focused as your own, yet to all intents and purposes the trees is conscious of 50 years before its existence and 50 years hence. 

Its sense of identity spontaneously goes beyond the changes of its own form, 

It has no ego to cut the I identification short. Creatures without the compartment of the ego can easily follow their own identity beyond any change of form.

A simple tree deals with the nature of probabilities as it trusts forward into new seeds. The tree knows the present and future history but it understands a future that is not preordained. It feels its own power in the present as it constructs that future. 

In deeper terms the tree's seeds also realize that there is a future there a variety of futures toward which they grope.

from "The Unknown Reality A Seth Book" By Jane Roberts and Robert F Butts

Year 1996 and Forests

By Liliana Usvat    
Blog 363-365

What happen in 1996?
Somebody at the international level did something took a bad decision that affected the world climate and forested areas.

Madagascar forest started to disappear. 90% of the forests have been erased since that year. 

Romanian Forest lost 30% of the wood mass. A large amount of forests are still erased by a foreign company and Austrian Company.

England moved 49 power plant from coal to wood as if wood is renewable energy. They use wood from other countries since they have such a big empire.

USA has around 200 power plants using wood derivative products. 

Canada is loosing 45 sq km per year of forest. Logging companies sue for millions of dollars Green peace for bringing to attention of clear cutting practices which erase the ability of the forest to regenerate itself.

In one province in Canada British Columbia

During the period 1992 to 1996, industry sales increased from $11 billion in 1992 to almost $18 billion in 1995 before falling to about $16 billion in 1996. During that period, net earnings ranged from a loss of about $250 million in 1992 to net earnings of about $1.3 billion in each of 1994 and 1995 before turning to an estimated loss of $250 million in 1996. 

Sand storms are sweeping Asia. South Korea started to plant trees in China to avoid sand storms in her country. 


Japan’s voracious consumption has been well documented, according to the report, as have the “exploitative activities of [Japanese] companies overseas.” Rather than reforming their purchasing and consumption patterns, however, “many companies have set up highly efficient public relations departments to counter allegations and deflect attention away from their activities.”

The report notes that, “rather than making more information publicly available, the sogo shosha, Japan Lumber Importers Association, and the Japanese government no longer release timber import figures for fear of further criticism.” In a similar move, these corporations have also reduced their direct logging operations, and instead buy from Chinese companies that have taken over the cutting and hauling.
  

Them machines that cut trees are more and more complex and efficient.


Worldwatch Institute confirms this in its 1999 State of the World report. “In industrial countries, where most of the world’s commercial wood is produced, timber harvest is the primary cause of forest degradation,” says the report. “In developing nations, land clearing for agriculture and grazing combine with timber harvesting to reduce forest area. It is often timber harvesting, accompanied by roads that penetrate the forest and provide access to otherwise inaccessible places, that precipitates land clearing.”

Links
http://www.globalforestwatch.org/map