Planting trees

To restore all the forest we lost around the world, we need to plant trees. We lost 50% of all the forests, mainly in Asia and Africa. If we look at the fires in the Amazon and USA, we will lose even more. Forests can stop runaway global heating, encourage rainfall, guarantee clean water, reduce air pollution, and provide livelihoods for local people and reserves for rare wildlife. 

In March 2019 the United Nations announced a Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and has set a target to restore 350m hectares – an area bigger than India – by 2030. India itself has pledged to plant 13m hectares of forest by 2020, Latin America is aiming at 20m hectares and African countries 100m hectares by 2030. China’s aspiration is to plant an area of forest as large as Ireland every year. Trees are increasingly hailed as a solution for climate-stressed cities too, preventing overheating and reducing air pollution. In England, more than 130,000 trees are to be planted in towns and cities over the next two years. But it will take years to restore the forests. We need new technology and projects to seed and to grow the trees faster.  

Episodes

Youtuber Mr Beast wants to plant 20 mio trees
7:22
Ethiopia breaks world record for most trees planted in a day.
4:05
The great green wall of Africa
1:53
Justdiggit
6:05
Are trees the new coal?
2:22
Droneseed
3:38
just digg it bunds
2:25
Man Spends 30 Years Regenerating Farmland into Amazing Forest
29:38
The trouble with trees
9:44
Fire Fighters at Katingan Mentaya Project in Indonesia
12:14
Ecosia is search engine that plant trees
7:24
Orange peels changes the Costa Rica rainforest
1:43