{"id":769525,"date":"2026-06-29T19:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769525\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:59:10","slug":"canadian-tries-to-set-world-record-for-most-trees-planted-in-24-hours-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769525\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tries to set world record for most trees planted in 24 hours \u2014 again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kenny Chaplin wants to reclaim his Guinness World Record for most trees planted by an individual in 24 hours. <\/p>\n

He first won the title in 2001 by planting 15,170 trees near Prince Albert, Sask. and held onto it for the next 20 years before a new record was set by a competitor.<\/p>\n

He wants that title back.<\/p>\n

To get it, he intends to turn a flat field near Buena Vista, Sask., about 40 kilometres northwest of Regina, into a future forest between 8 a.m. CST on June 30 and 8 a.m. CST on July 1.<\/p>\n

“It’s just really cool to walk through your own forest,” Chaplin told CBC Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

“I’m really looking forward to doing this one. This will be quite exciting if I can do 24,000 trees in 24 hours. That’s the goal.”<\/p>\n

The trees he planted for his first record-breaking effort have grown tall over the last quarter-century, and it makes him proud to know the new jack pine seedlings he tucks into the ground this year will similarly flourish, eventually becoming a mature forest for future generations to enjoy, he said.<\/p>\n

“It’ll become a communal forest and the town or the village of Buena Vista will be the recipient of it.”<\/p>\n

He hopes the trees he plants will eventually border a path local residents can use for walking their dogs and spending time with their children, he said.<\/p>\n

“In five years’ time, the landowner will come through maybe with a cutter and cut paths, walking paths and hiking paths and little areas to sit and make it a really nice forest.”<\/p>\n

\"AThe area where Kenny Chaplin intends to plant jack pine seedlings in the village of Buena Vista, Sask. (Eric Stachowich\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The Guinness World Records website says the current record is held by Antoine Moses, another Canadian who planted 23,060 trees in La Crete, Alberta, on July 17, 2021.<\/p>\n

Moses “used the whole day, and artificial light through the night,” Chaplin said. “He had a team that helped. So it kind of changed the original of the record.”<\/p>\n

He likes that tree planting has become more competitive over the years, he said.<\/p>\n

This time, he’ll have his twin brother to help him, and some volunteers to witness the whole thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I hire independent professionals to be witnesses, like a forester and arborist, a botanist, and they stand by and they make witness statements for Guinness,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I also have a team of three different cameras set up because I need a static camera set up for 24 hours so that Guinness can see that every tree is being planted the way it should be planted.”<\/p>\n

Chaplin’s record attempt is a “massive effort,” David Tonken, president of Let\u2019s\u00a0Plant\u00a0Trees\u00a0Ltd., wrote in a message to CBC.<\/p>\n

“We are trying to bring attention to the importance of\u00a0planting\u00a0trees\u00a0and the physical and mental discipline gained by\u00a0tree\u00a0planters every year as they rehabilitate our forests.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-769525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}