A Tidbit about Pakistan’s “Billion Tree Tsunami”

SavePlanetEarth (SPE) traveled to Pakistan on Friday to lay the groundwork of doing its part in planting a whopping 1 billion trees in designated areas throughout the country. Under this banner, it will also be entering into a collaboration with WWF-Pakistan to embark on the country’s restoration and conservation of the Himalayan Yew — a species of native conifer best-regarded for its medicinal and ethnobotanical significance. Additionally, SPE will be overseeing the establishment of green nurseries throughout the country (with the largest being about 25–35 acres), with similar nurseries set to be established in the Maldives and Sri Lanka — where SPE will be touring to next. These nurseries play a vital role in boosting carbon sequestration initiatives, fostering an environment for plants and trees to thrive in, as well as encouraging human participation through training and job applications.

The goal of 1 billion trees, though, is a mere fraction of Pakistan’s grand target of planting 10 billion trees — spearheaded by the Ministry of Climate Change and considered as a successor to a series of similar projects carried out in the country since 2014.

This all started with Pakistan taking inspiration from the Bonn Challenge, a global environmental restoration project initiated in September 2011, by Germany and the International Union for…