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Mexico plants 8 million trees in latest green project
reuters.com — MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans went out and planted more than 8 million trees across the country on Saturday as part of a government push to shed its reputation for environmental mismanagement and rampant illegal logging. Packs of volunteers,...
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- denied, on 07/06/2008, -1/+7was bound to happen with that many gardeners already in the country...
- Lososaurus, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2I'm glad someone else said it.
- darthsand, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2about time they planted trees!!
- gavinhudson, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Que padre! Great going, Mexico. You should be proud.
- cledford, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4it only cost their government $35
- RegularJohn, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2I don't know how much of a publicity stunt is this (as the article mentions), but it definitely is a thumbs up for all those in the fight against deforesting.
- sunshine8705, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0Shouldn't we appraise the fact that they are at least planting trees. Yeah, there are a lot of things that we can sit here and say they need to fix, but here in the U.S., we are not perfect either. There are a lot more laws and regulations that could be put in place to better our environment.
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