Ghana aimed to plant at least 5 million trees in a single day recently to help regrow the county's lost forests and curb the impacts of climate change, the president said. The expansion of farming, and to a lesser degree mining and logging, has led to high levels of deforestation in Ghana, environmentalists say. More than 7 million seedlings were distributed to Ghanaian parks, schools,and businesses ahead of the day's events, according to the lands ministry, and -- by noon on the appointed day -- 2.7 million of the seedlings had been planted. The government now plans for Green Ghana day to become an annual event, with an ambitious goal of expanding the day's planting target from 5 million to 100 million trees by 2024.

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