NAGA CITY, Philippines ? Camarines Sur broke a Guinness World Record by simultaneously planting the most number of trees in 15 minutes at 64,096 trees from the previous record of India at 50,033 trees, Seyda Subasi Gemici, adjudicator of the Guinness Book of World Records, announced here Wednesday.

Gemici said the validation of the tree-planting event held Wednesday in Siruma town, Camarines Sur, followed the requirement of the Guinness Book of World Records that a supervisor was assigned for every 50 participants.

Governor Luis Raymund Villafuerte Jr. said the record-breaking feat of planting the most number of trees in 15 minutes was confirmed by Gemici.

Gemici, a Turkish national, climbed the mountain in Siruma upon arriving in Camarines Sur on Wednesday to validate the world record being challenged after traveling from Australia to Istanbul to Dubai and arriving in Manila on Tuesday.

Gemici said each supervisor had to give a statement regarding the number of participants and the number of trees planted within the 32-ha area in Siruma.

Villafuerte said that more than the record-breaking feat of the province in the Guinness Book of World Records, the event demonstrated that the people of Camarines Sur could work together to make something happen.

?When people unite, cooperate and help each other, there seems to be no impossible endeavor,? he said.

Siruma Mayor Sandy Ondis said it took them three weeks to prepare for the record-breaking event in close coordination with the provincial government, village officials and religious and civil society groups.

?The most important message of our feat is that people were able to understand the problem of climate change (and) we could do something to set back (its) ill effects by planting trees,? Ondis said.

The tree-planting activity was part of the Capitol-initiated ?El Verde? movement which targeted to plant 12 million trees from 2011 to 2012.