Climate activist Truphena Muthoni has set a world record for hugging a tree for 72 hours straight. She clocked the mark on December 11, 2025, 12: 27 pm at Nyeri Governor Kahiga Mutahi’s office in Nyeri town. 

The 22-year-old environmentalist, known for her deep passion for reafforestation and an advocate against the cutting of trees, had previously attempted a 48-hour tree-hugging challenge in February at Nairobi’s Michuki Memorial Park. 

With an unbeatable determination to put the record straight, she had set strict rules in her 72-hour endurance challenge, which consisted of no food, no water and zero breaks.

She was to maintain physical contact with the tree and only move around it without breaking the embrace. 

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“I am doing this to also encourage people just to make them fall in love with nature, so that they do not hurt nature, and also because I believe that conservation begins with love, and that we must nurture a million trees before we plant a million trees,” she said in a previous interview.