What day is Arbor Day?

Arbor Day is a number of countries to promote the protection of trees by law, and mobilize the masses to participate in afforestation activities for the content of the festival, according to the length of time can be divided into tree planting day, tree planting week or tree planting month, collectively known as the International Arbor Day, through this activity, stimulate people love forests, afforestation enthusiasm, China's Arbor Day date for March 12, the following we will take a look at it!

Ecological Value of Arbor Day

Arbor Day is to protect and advocate people to plant trees, encourage people to care for trees, remind people to pay attention to trees. Trees play a very important role in the survival of human beings and the ecological environment of the earth. Professor Des of Kolkata Agricultural University in India calculated the ecological value of a tree. A 50-year-old tree has a cumulative value of about US $31200 for oxygen production, US $62500 for absorbing harmful gases, US $62500 for preventing air pollution, US $31200 for increasing soil fertility, US $37500 for conserving water, US $31250 for providing breeding sites for birds and other animals. The resulting protein is worth $2500, totaling approximately $196000.

Fun facts about planting trees on arbor day

A few hundred years ago Yugoslavia enacted a law stipulating that each newlywed couple must first plant 70 olive trees. Kagoshima, Japan and other areas also have a newly married couple to plant trees, tree next to the monument to indicate the name and wedding date, 50 years after planting can be cut down, when the planting couple can hold a celebration of the 50th anniversary of marriage. Indonesia Java law provisions, the first marriage to plant 2 trees, divorce to plant 5 trees, the second marriage must plant 3 trees, otherwise not registered.

2, add cars to plant trees: in Japan there is a special rule, every private to add a car, must plant a tree. This is because every car emits a lot of toxic hydrocarbons and makes noise every year. Trees are natural "disinfectors" and "noise eliminators". Therefore, trees must be planted.

In many parts of Tanzania, Africa, there is a custom of "planting trees", that is, whoever has a child, buries the placenta in the land outside the door, and plants a tree there, indicating that he hopes the child will thrive like a tree. Some places in Poland stipulate that every family that has given birth to a child must plant three trees, called "family trees."

Tree banks: In order to prevent construction projects from destroying trees, Japan has opened a "tree bank". All construction units must deposit the trees with roots dug out from the clearing site into the "tree bank" in time. After the project is completed, the unit must take out the trees and plant them in time to maintain the original green area.

5, courtship tree planting: in Bonn, Germany, the annual tree planting season, the young man to give the girl a carefully selected birch sapling, personally planted it to express love, people call it "courtship tree".

Arbor Day is a few months a few days?

China: Chinese Arbor Day is March 12. In 1928, it was designated as March 12 to commemorate Sun Yat-sen's death and afforestation movement. In February 1979, the sixth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress decided that March 12 was the National Arbor Day.

2. North Korea: North Korea Arbor Day is April 6. Since 1947, April 6 has been the National Arbor Day of Korea every year, April and October are the tree planting months, and each county has set a tree planting week according to its climate.

Thailand: Thailand Arbor Day is September 24, the same day as National Day.

Myanmar: Myanmar Arbor Day is in June. The Burmese government decided to hold an Arbor Day every year since June 1954.

Philippines: Arbor Day is the second Saturday in September. A 1947 decree established the second Saturday of September as Arbor Day.

Indonesia: Indonesian Arbor Day is December 19-24. Since 1960, the National Afforestation Week has been held every year. On December 17, 1981, President Soeharto presided over the opening ceremony of the 21st National Afforestation Week.

7. Pakistan: Pakistan Arbor Day is August 4. August 4 was designated National Arbor Day in 1949.

India: Indian Arbor Day is the first week of July. The first National Arbor Day was held in July 1950. After 1951, the first week of July was set as Arbor Day every year.

9. Iraq: Arbor Day in Iraq is March 6.

10. Syria: Arbor Day in Syria is the last Thursday in December. Act of 1952.

11. Lebanon: Lebanon Arbor Day is the first week of December. Arbor Day has been established since the 1940s and was later designated as Arbor Day in the first week of December.

Jordan: Jordan Arbor Day is January 15. The Ministry of Forestry has designated January 15 as the National Arbor Day.

Yemen Arab Republic: Arbor Day in Yemen Arab Republic is March 6.

14. Algeria: Arbor Day in Algeria is every Friday during the afforestation season. The government designated every Friday of the annual afforestation season as a voluntary tree-planting day. From 1980 to 1981, 560,000 volunteers planted 12 million trees.

Australia: Australia Arbor Day is the first Friday in May.

16. new Zealand: new Zealand Arbor Day is the first Wednesday in August.

Egypt: Egypt Arbor Day is September to November. In 1980, Arbor Day was established from September to November.

Tunisia: Arbor Day is celebrated on November 18.

19. Senegal: Arbor Day in Senegal is from early August to mid October. Every year after the rainy season began the national tree planting activities, the government called for "one tree per person","one village one hectare forest" activities, lasting for half a year, is the world's longest Arbor Day countries.

Yugoslavia: Yugoslav Arbor Day is autumn. Since 1947,"Forest Festival" has been held in spring and "Afforestation Week" in autumn, with dates varying from place to place.

Greece: Greek Arbor Day is autumn. Arbor Day is held at the beginning of the afforestation season in mid-or late autumn each year.

Italy: Italian Arbor Day is November 21, began in 1899.

Spain: Spanish Arbor Day is February 1. Arbor Day began at the end of the last century, and Madrid regards the first week from February 1 of each year as "Tree Planting Week."

24, the United Kingdom: British Arbor Day is November 6-12. Since 1977, tree planting week has been held throughout the country from 6 to 12 November every year.

Ireland: Irish Arbor Day is March 17. From 1934 to 1938, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Land arranged for Arbor Day activities in schools. In 1939, it was interrupted. In 1950, the Irish Tree Association initiated the resumption of Arbor Day activities. March 17 of each year was set as Arbor Day.

France: French Arbor Day is March 31. In 1977, on the initiative of the President of the Republic, March 31 of each year was designated as Tree Day and March as Greening Month.

27. Czech Slovakia: Czech Slovakia Arbor Day is spring.

28. Colombia: Arbor Day in Colombia is October 12.

Ecuador: Ecuador Arbor Day is October 12. An administrative regulation promulgated by the government on June 7, 1920 stipulates that October 12 of each year is Arbor Day.

Venezuela: Venezuela Arbor Day is May 23. In April 1905, a decree was passed stipulating that May 23 of each year was Arbor Day.

Bolivia: Bolivia Arbor Day is August 20. In 1939, a decree was issued to designate August 20 as National Tree Planting Day.

Argentina: In 1940, it was stipulated by law that an Arbor Day event should be held once a year, but the specific time was not uniform throughout the country.