Trees, Heritage, and the Art of Planting Well

South Africa is inviting citizens to plant 10 million trees on September 24 as the opening of President Ramaphosa's Presidential One Billion Trees Programme, building on last year's One Million Trees Campaign which surpassed its target with 1.3 million trees planted without government purchasing a single one.

The article emphasizes that survival matters more than the planting number itself; a tree's success depends on it being the right species in the right location, and long-term survival rates after five years are what ultimately determine whether tree-planting days matter.