A team of 100 volunteers planted 49,672 trees in one hour in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, and broke a Guinness World Record, according to GuinnessWorldRecords.com.
That means each volunteer planted more than 496 trees each, on average. The total number of trees planted in an hour beat the previous record by nearly 10,000.
The mass planting, organized by the Bhutan Eco-Green Initiative Network, was a way to celebrate the country’s Social Forestry Day. About 75 percent of Bhutan is covered by forest, and the country’s constitution states that a minimum of 60 percent of land will forever be covered by forest.
Conservation is an idea at the forefront of Bhutanese society, which includes nature as one of the indicators in the country’s unique Gross National Happiness index.
"The whole country is happy,” event organizer Karma Tshering told Guinness World Records. “Our world record shows that Bhutan's young generation wants a clean and green future. We will never compromise on that."
