Roll of Honour Top Ten Countries
- China 2.8 billion
- India 2.1 billion
- Ethiopia 1.6 billion
- Mexico 785 million
- Turkey 716 million
- Nigeria 612 million
- Kenya 455 million
- Peru 246 million
- Myanmar 191 million
- Cuba 137 million
“Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects.” African saying
December 2011, five years since the campaign’s launch, the campaign’s website www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign proudly registered over 12.5 billion planted trees across 193 countries.
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