ethiopia plants 350+million trees in 12 hours

[butters]

as a part of its plan to reforest the denuded land. today, it only has about 4% covered by trees compared to the 30% it had at the end of the 1800's. it's part of a 20 nation initiation to reforest 100 million hectares in its african forest landscape restoration initiative

A recent study estimated that restoring the world's lost forests could remove two thirds of all the planet-warming carbon that is in the atmosphere because of human activity.
The study, carried out by researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich, calculated that restoring degraded forests all over the world could capture about 205 billion tons of carbon in total. Global carbon emissions are around 10 billion tons per year.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/afri...ail&utm_term=0_6da287d761-e96437aafd-98007609

 

[notfeasance]

Weather and Correct Time threads, please.

 

[von_Bismarck]

Big question will be how many of those saplings take. My understanding is, trees planted as a part of China's Great Green Wall don't have a stellar survival rate. But the Chinese are going for quantity over sustainable methodology.

 

[butters]

Big question will be how many of those saplings take. My understanding is, trees planted as a part of China's Great Green Wall don't have a stellar survival rate. But the Chinese are going for quantity over sustainable methodology.

who knows? but it's gotta be a sizeable number, surely, out of that many. just another step in the right direction.

 

[oggbashan]

In the same time frame, Brazil is destroying miles of rain forest.

 

[butters]

In the same time frame, Brazil is destroying miles of rain forest.

i know. but ethiopia isn't in this alone, so there's hope.

 

[adrina]

Next up needs to be Brazil.

 

[oggbashan]

i know. but ethiopia isn't in this alone, so there's hope.

The UK is lagging far behind its ambitions. In 2017 the total of new trees planted could have been done by a 3-man team.

 

[Paul_Chance]

Depending on the type of trees they planted (if they planted the right ones for the right locations), the survival rate over ten years is in the 10% to 30% rate. With proper maintenance, it climbs up to 60%. Either number, that is a heck of a feat.

Ogg does bring up the good point of sustainability. Unfortunately, for many of the large scale planting efforts, the initial planting makes a big splash, but the sustaining support lacks and at the end of the date, you have abysmal survival rates.

(And yet, at the same time, there are private forests built over twenty years by a handful of people.)

America has 127 million households. Just imagine if everyone planted one "adopted" tree a year, either on their own land or on public land, the end result would be a crap-ton of trees.

Kudos to those nation-states and organizations doing this kind of good work.

 

[BotanyBoy]

PLANT MOAR TREEZ!!!!

https://media.giphy.com/media/7T2R1eAIKnEJnAf5U8/giphy.gif

This year I've planted almost 1,500 of them personally. All in ground long term growers.

Japanese white and red pine, sakura Cherry, Black Hills spruce, Pondies, eastern larch, northern red oak and a few Japanese larch.

Next year since I won't be moving and getting things set up I'm aiming for about 5000~ depending on how germination goes.

 

[chillywilly2]

Just in the last few years we built 200 windmills here.
They cut down about 50 acres of trees for each windmill.
At 1000 trees per acre thats 10 million trees.
Sounds like a heck of a plan to me

 

[hobbit.]

The UK is lagging far behind its ambitions. In 2017 the total of new trees planted could have been done by a 3-man team.

sexist pig. Eastern european women can dig like billy-o.

 

[hobbit.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-S1o5OmMMo
a song for the trees.

 

[oggbashan]

sexist pig. Eastern european women can dig like billy-o.

But a 3-man team has to stop for tea breaks. If the work had been done by others? Fewer people could have planted the same pathetic number of trees.

We planted 40 trees in our local park, but only to replace those lost to disease.

 

[Paul_Chance]

One of the challenges faced by most western societies is that in addition to the trees being felled, the land itself has been converted to other (perceived higher value) use. Here in the US it's not just a question of planting the trees, but in converting the land back to forest from residential or commercial use. For the existing privately owned and public lands being harvested it's already managed and cycled.

 

[butters]

Just in the last few years we built 200 windmills here.
They cut down about 50 acres of trees for each windmill.
At 1000 trees per acre thats 10 million trees.
Sounds like a heck of a plan to me

when allotting space to trees per acre, if you allow 150 square feet per tree (15'x10') that comes out under 300 per acre. we have a lot of trees, and there's no way that figure of 1000 per acre is anything like representative. where do you find that 1000 per acre figure? they'd have to be little sticks, not full-grown trees
edited to add: full-grown deciduous trees take up way more space than a 10'x15' plot, some of their canopies measuring 30' or more.

also, it depends on what trees were cut down as to their value as carbon capturers

 

[butters]

Depending on the type of trees they planted (if they planted the right ones for the right locations), the survival rate over ten years is in the 10% to 30% rate. With proper maintenance, it climbs up to 60%. Either number, that is a heck of a feat.

Ogg does bring up the good point of sustainability. Unfortunately, for many of the large scale planting efforts, the initial planting makes a big splash, but the sustaining support lacks and at the end of the date, you have abysmal survival rates.

(And yet, at the same time, there are private forests built over twenty years by a handful of people.)

America has 127 million households. Just imagine if everyone planted one "adopted" tree a year, either on their own land or on public land, the end result would be a crap-ton of trees.

Kudos to those nation-states and organizations doing this kind of good work.

i know there are places you can't plant a tree per household, but wouldn't it be great if every household that had space could be responsible for growing at least one tree in their garden? make the places a lot prettier, too.

 

[heathergives]

They should send the Ethiopians to the Amazon rain forest, where they could and should work wonders.

 

[Rightguide]

as a part of its plan to reforest the denuded land. today, it only has about 4% covered by trees compared to the 30% it had at the end of the 1800's. it's part of a 20 nation initiation to reforest 100 million hectares in its african forest landscape restoration initiative


https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/afri...ail&utm_term=0_6da287d761-e96437aafd-98007609

They should have planted crops then maybe they could eat enough to keep their wrist watches on.

 

[LukNotLuke]

They should have planted crops then maybe they could eat enough to keep their wrist watches on.

Shaddup, tubby bitch. Your watchband is a belt.

 

[Epheme]

I feel like back in elementary school we were offered the chance to buy a square inch of Brazilian rainforest in an effort to save it. Looking back, it was probably a con. MLMs for kids.

 

[butters]

I feel like back in elementary school we were offered the chance to buy a square inch of Brazilian rainforest in an effort to save it. Looking back, it was probably a con. MLMs for kids.

can't speak to your elementary school experience, but this is about a collection of nations coming together to reforest land that had become cleared over decades. from 30% forest coverage to only 4%. it will help stop flooding, soil loss, improve conditions for crop growing, create jobs, and invests in the futures of the populations involved. how that relates to your experience, i'm baffled.

don't misunderstand me, though, i'm sure there were all sorts of scams offered over time where the supposed aim was the vehicle for scammers to cream money from the gullible. it probably never got anywhere near the brazilian rainforest, and probably most of it got directed straight into the bank accounts of people a lot closer to american shores.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

I cut down 3 trees this year so I'm glad someone made up for that.

 

[oggbashan]

I feel like back in elementary school we were offered the chance to buy a square inch of Brazilian rainforest in an effort to save it. Looking back, it was probably a con. MLMs for kids.

There is this site which buys rainforest with just a click from you:

https://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clicktogive/trs/daily-results

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

There is this site which buys rainforest with just a click from you:

https://thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com/clicktogive/trs/daily-results

I don't trust a single for profit charity. It kinda takes away the whole point of "charity."