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Arbor Day (or Arbour Day in some countries) is a secular day of observance in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant trees. [1] Today, many countries observe such a holiday. Though usually observed in the spring, the date varies, depending on climate and suitable planting season.
Planting Shade: Student run non-profit based in Virginia Beach. Gives citizens the resources to plant trees in their own backyard and other residential areas. [citation needed] Arbor Day Foundation [97] Nature Conservancy; Plant-it 2020 [98] USDA Forest Service "Plant-A-Tree" program in which a person can donate to plant trees in the National ...
Christmas tree cultivation is an agricultural, forestry, and horticultural occupation which involves growing pine, spruce, and fir trees specifically for use as Christmas trees. The first Christmas tree farm was established in 1901, but most consumers continued to obtain their trees from forests until the 1930s and 1940s.
Platycladus is a monotypic genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species, Platycladus orientalis, also known as Chinese thuja, [5] Oriental arborvitae, [6] Chinese arborvitae, biota or Oriental thuja.
Tree Day was started in the Indian city of Hyderabad on 15 May 2016 to protest against the government's plans to cut down thousands of trees around the KBR National Park. [1] The Government of Telangana had proposed a Strategic Road Development Plan (SRDP) under which the entire KBR Park periphery also called the KBR Park Eco-Sensitive Zone ...
The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.
Ant Forest (Chinese: 蚂蚁森林; pinyin: Mǎyǐ sēnlín) is a tree planting initiative launched in 2016 by Ant Financial Services Group, an Alibaba affiliate. [1] It encourages users to lower carbon emissions by planting trees when users engage in activities that reduce carbon emissions.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.