UP eyes fifth Guinness, plants 2,880 saplings of 240 species

LUCKNOW: With eyes set on a Guinness World Record, UP planted 2,880 saplings of 240 different species at eight spots in one hour on Tuesday.
In eight districts chosen for the exercise, 12 saplings each of 30 different species were planted, making it 360 trees for one district and 2,880 trees for eight districts.
The exercise was conducted between 10am and 11am.
The plantation was done in the presence of independent verifiers at all sites by teams of the forest department.
Videos and photographs collected from the sites by verifiers and forest department will be sent to the London office of Guinness.
“An online verification of the data we send would be done by Guinness,” said mission director, Plantation 2020, Mukesh Kumar.
If UP gets the certificate, it would be the state’s fifth world record for plantation since 2007, when the first one came for planting 1 crore trees in a day.