A majority of the saplings are of Ladakhi willow and poplars.
They will plant saplings in specially dug pits. The Philippines had planted 66,000 saplings within an hour in January 2011.Ī spokesperson for Live to Love told IANS the plantation drive would be performed over an area of 60 acres in Liktsey, a small hamlet with some 30-odd mud-brick houses, where villagers are largely growing barley and apricots, by involving some 5,000 volunteers, comprising government officials, leaders of various faiths, locals besides Kung Fu nuns and international volunteers. Previously, 9,033 volunteers of Live to Love planted 50,033 saplings in October 2010.
In 2012, Live to Love, founded by the Gyalwang Drukpa, a recipient of the UN's Millennium Development Goals Award for his humanitarian and environmental work, entered its name in the Guinness World Records history by breaking the record of the Philippines for "Most Trees Planted Simultaneously" by planting 99,103 Ladakhi willow saplings by involving 9,814 volunteers near the world-famous Hemis monastery in less than an hour. The community non-religious plantation drive named 'Trees for Life' is backed by an international network of non-profit organisations, Live to Love, whose volunteers, comprising Buddhist monks and nuns, twice broke the Guinness World Record for most trees planted simultaneously. To achieve the high survival rate of saplings in the land of extremes - where rainfall is rare, and water essential for irrigating the farmlands and household chores mostly comes from melting snow - a solar-powered micro irrigation system has been installed with the local administration's support.
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One lakh saplings - 90 per cent of them are of willow and poplar species - will be planted in the arid Ladakh region on May 17 to achieve its 85-90 per cent survival rate, volunteers of the plantation drive said on Sunday.Ī record-breaking 150,000 plus trees have already been planted in the Ladakh region and are thriving under the care of the Kung Fu nuns, led by Gyalwang Drukpa, the spiritual head of the 1,000-year-old Drukpa Order based in the Himalayas.
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