800,000 Indians Attempt to Plant 50 Million Trees to Break Guinness World Record

More than 800,000 people turned out Monday in India to plant trees in hopes of breaking a world record.

Uttar Pradesh officials distributed 50 million tree saplings across the state to help India increase its forest cover and to break the Guinness World record for the number of trees planted in 24 hours—which was set by Pakistan in 2013 with 847,275 trees—the AP reported.

Students, lawmakers, government officials and others headed out to plant trees at designated spots along roads, rail tracks and in forested lands.

Source: http://www.ecowatch.com/plant-50-million-trees-guinness-world-record-1917368877.html

Btw, I wish we did stuff like this in the USA, Canada and other western countries.