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Oksana plants trees for United Nations' "Billion Trees Campaign "
| Source: http://www.allsportinfo.ru/index.php?id=28136 Yuri Bashmet, Oksana Domnina and the Partners of the Organizing Committee of "Sochi-2014" plant linden, pine and apple trees in the frame of UN's «Billion Trees Campaign» Today, 5 June, World Environment Day, officials, ambassadors and partners of the Organizing Committee of "Sochi-2014" will be planting linden, pine and apple trees in the sports complex of Krylatsky, as part of the UN's "Billion Trees Campaign" . Sport news agency "All Sports" reports on the press release of the Organizing Committee of "Sochi-2014". The purpose of the "Plant for the Planet: Billion Trees Campaign" is to plant 7 billion trees around the world by the end of 2009. The campaign is under the patronage of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Green Belt Movement activist Wangari Maathai, Prince Albert II of Monaco, and the World Agroforestry Centre-ICRAF. Planting of saplings of a linden, a pine and an apple-tree in the territory of the Sports complex of Krylatsky will begin at 10.30 Moscow time. Among the participants: ambassadors of the Organizing committee of "Sochi-2014" musician Yuri Bashmet and European and World figure skating champion Oksana Domnina; sportsmen - three times Olympic champion in synchronized swimming Maria Kiseleva and winner of Olympic Games in Figure Skating Ilia Averbukh; the Organizing Committee staff of Sochi-2014, and the companies - sponsors of "Sochi-2014" (Rosneft, Sberbank of Russia, Rostelecom and Megaphone). After the planting, the president of Organizing committee of "Sochi-2014" Dmitry Chernyshenko and the head of division of the Ecological Program of the United Nations (UNEP) Teodor Oben will sign the Memorandum of mutual understanding on Environmental Strategy for "Sochi-2014". | |
| Category: 2008-09 | Date: 05 Jun 2009 | Author: "All Sport" |
