MindaNews fact-checked a claim on Facebook that Mindanao holds the world record for most trees planted simultaneously in an hour in May 2023. The claim is
false.Young Farmer, a Facebook page that shares gardening and farming ideas, posted on May 20, 2024 a publication material with the texts: “In May 2023, volunteers in the Philippines broke the world record for planting trees simultaneously in an hour, planting 3.2 million seedlings.”
“This record-breaking event saw the planting of rubber, cacao, coffee, timber and mahogany trees, as well as a range of fruit trees and other species indigenous to the Philippines,” according to a report by Consistent with our trust for factual reporting, we will rectify any error that we have committed. If you spot a factual error, you may notify the MindaNews Editors.MindaNews is the news service arm of the Mindanao Institute of Journalism . MindaNews was founded in 2001 by independent, professional Mindanawon journalists who left the country’s most widely-circulated Manila-based broadsheet to tell the stories of Mindanao from the lenses of Mindanawons.
Our fact-checking initiative with a uniform format started in October 2021 as part of Internews’ pioneering Philippine Fact-Checker Incubator project. Internews is an international non-profit that supports independent media from 100 countries. Our fact checks include this paragraph encouraging readers to be part of the process: “As with all our other reports, MindaNews welcomes leads or suggestions from the public to potential fact check pieces.”As a news organization, we strictly adhere to accuracy, fairness, balance, independence, accountability and transparency not just in our fact-checking initiative but in all other aspects of our work at MindaNews.
Step 2: When a claim is worth fact-checking, a team member looks for multiple sources to dispute the claim, including tracing the original source document.
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