Weekly Article - We Can Make A Difference

Although this article was published a few days ago but I still think that it is important that you see this if you haven't already.

Recently India came together as a country with 800,000 volunteers to do some good for the world. They successfully planted 49.3 million saplings in a grand total of 24 hours. This is a truly staggering amount of trees and was actually done as an attempt to break the world record which was previously held by Pakistan. However although this is defiantly a step or even a jump in the right direction it only equates to just under the number of trees which were cut down in just 20 days in 2014 (that's 900 million annually) so sadly we can't jump to the conclusion that we've halted deforestation.

Check out the links below to see a few different

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/india-plants-50-million-trees-uttar-pradesh-reforestation/

http://www.sciencealert.com/india-planted-50-million-trees-in-just-24-hours-last-week

hopefully this has made your day a little bit brighter

Thanks for reading!