Mexico joins the campaign with 250 million trees
Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderon, declared that his country would plant 250 million trees in 2007. With this commitment, the Government of Mexico launched the Pro  Árbol (Pro tree) Campaign. Its aims to reach one fourth of the goal the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Global Campaign has set.

This way, the Mexican Government fully involves itself in the UNEP “Plant for the Planet” campaign focused on the planting worldwide of one thousand million of autochthonous trees. To seal the commitment, the representative of the Mexican Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Juan Elvira Quesada, and the Regional Director of UNEP/ROLAC signed a setter in which the Mexican Government states its intention of joining the worldwide initiative, through reforestation campaigns and the promotion of the civil society and productive sectors implicated in forest topics.
The President made this announcement at the launching of the Pro Tree Program, sponsored by the Chemistry Nobel Prize winner, Mario Molina, and where the letter on the commitment on planting of autochthonous trees was signed; it also mentions the support of consultants for specific regional plantation adapted to local conditions; the integration of efforts at all levels of governments, federal, state and local; the adopting of necessary means towards plantation of trees, and the carrying-out of follow-up tasks together with certification mechanisms as indicated by UNEP.
The 250 million trees pledged are all indigenous to Mexico and include the following species:
Acacia farnesiana, Agave atrovirens,Agave crupeata,Agave sp,Alnus sp,Brosimium alicastrum,Cedrela odorata,Cupresus lindleyi,Enterolobium cyclocarpum,Junglas piriformis,Junglas regia,Liquidambar macrophylla,Pinus arizonica,Pinus ayacahuite,Pinus cembroides,Pinus cooperi,Pinus chiapensis,Pinus devoniana,Pinus douglasiana,Pinus durangensis,Pinus engelmannii,Pinus gregii, Pinus hartwegii,Pinus jeffreyi,Pinus michoacana,Pinus montezumae,Pinus nelsoni,Pinus oaxacana,Pinus oocarpa,Pinus patula,Pinus pinceana,Pinus pseudostrobus,Pinus rudis,Pinus teocote,Pithecelobium paliens,Prosopis glandulosa, Prosopis laevigata,Prosopis velutina,Quercus sp,Quercus virens,Swietenia macrophylla,Yuca filifera.