Sentenced to plant 500 trees
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30/06/2003
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Business Line (New Delhi)
In a unique punishment, a farmer in central China's Henan province has been ordered to plant 500 trees to replace those he illegally felled to sell as timber, and also guarantee their survival, a report said. The court ordered Zhang to plant 500 aspens, the same type of tree he had felled, and gurantee the survival of all of them to march next year.