Well, Ethiopia has 105 million people. Let's say half are able bodied and can plant trees, then just round that down for 50 million... that's 7 trees per person in 12 hours. I'm assuming they did it with seeds though, because where the actual fuck are they going to get 350 million saplings and then distribute them?
It's feasible, actually extremely feasible, but looking at articles online nobody really knows. Honestly, why not get a single plane with a cargo bay and just carpet-bomb acres with seeds. Would make way more economical sense instead of wasting the time of a few million people.
Cool facts: someone in Canada planted over 15,000 red pine seedlings in one day <_<
Right now the official record for most trees in a day is held by India at 50 million.
That's what I think they probably did, the problem being is almost every tree alive carpet bombs the forest with seeds every year. The problem is that most seeds don't take. The only way they could say for sure they planted 350,000,000 trees is to plant that many seedlings, which even not all of those are going to make it.
Well, considering Ethiopia's forest coverage has gone from 35% down to 4% in a century, nah, those trees aren't carpet bombing every year... so, yeah, even if 1/100th seed actually sticks, it would do a lot.
That's the problem. A tree can drop 10,000 acorns and not have a single one actually stick. Almost none of the seeds that fall out of a tree will actually become a tree. So dropping even millions out of a plane isn't actually going to result in a high rate of return.
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Right now the official record for most trees in a day is held by India at 50 million.