Working to reforest the earth
On 1 June 2002, 3,000 people paraded through the Brazilian village of Quebrangulo and then set about planting tree saplings. For Anita Studer, from Switzerland, the event was the culmination of 13 years of work, for one of the trees planted on 1 June was the millionth sapling in her plan to reforest the region, a project for which she won a Rolex Award in 1990.
"Someone who plants a tree with his or her own hands will think twice before burning trees down to clear the land.”
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Three million trees
Anita Studer's reforestation programme has planted three million trees in 14 Brazilian states
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Mrs Anita Studer
19, rue Chantepoulet
1201 Geneva
Switzerland
