Photo: Indonesia Planting 79 Million Trees

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Women plant saplings as part of a tree-planting campaign in West Java, Indonesia, on Wednesday, November 28, 2007.

Indonesia's president launched on Wednesday the project to plant 79 million trees before next month's critical climate change conference on the resort island of Bali, but said the country could not protect its rapidly dwindling rain forests alone.

Photograph by Dita Alangkara/AP

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