The government to plant 500 million tree seedlings on Monday

The government intends to plant 500 million tree seedlings during the nationwide tree-planting exercise on Monday. Environment CS Soipan Tuya says the gazettement of Monday as a public holiday is in line with the government's ambitious plan to plant 15 billion trees by 2032. Tuya says the government aims to plant half a billion trees in these short rains season and another 1 billion trees in the long rains, to achieve a target of 1.5 billion trees in a year.