KATMANDU, Nepal -- More than 2,000 people, mostly students wearing their school uniforms, gathered in Nepal's capital on Thursday in a bid to set a world record for the largest tree hug.

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In April 2024, a record for hugging the most trees was celebrated when Ghanaian-born Abubakar Tahiru hugged a total of 1,123 trees in Alabama, USA. This averages out to nearly 19 trees every minute.

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The special award, “Tree Hugging Champ 2025,” will be given to the most participative region, as determined by the number of individual submissions per region during the campaign.

Rochelle asked Will if he was OK after the tree hugging ordeal, while Joel said: "I'll be honest, that was some of the best telly I've ever witnessed." "We're lost for words I think," Rochelle added.

She was drawn to the mountains, the ocean and the trees when she left her hometown for the west coast in 2011. “I wanted to be David Suzuki when I grew up … a tree-hugging hippie,” she said.