Monday, 25 March 2019

Reforestation Drones Drop Seeds Instead of Bombs, Planting 100,000 Trees Per Day Each

Reforestation Drones Drop Seeds Instead of Bombs, Planting 100,000 Trees Per Day Each

The math is simple. Humans are cutting down 15 billion trees a year and replanting only 9 billion, creating an annual net loss of 6 billion trees. Planting trees by hand is time consuming and expensive, making it difficult to keep up with bulldozers clear-cutting over 40 football fields of trees ever minute. We’ve had impressive efforts, such as India planting 66 million trees in a day, but that was a large-scale event, which required organizing millions of volunteers. It would be difficult to recreate something like that on a regular basis.

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