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ah with in july 2019 researchers at the swiss federal institute of technology e th zurich made global headlines, planting trees, could help mitigate climate change, they said, but it would require a huge number of trees to be planted worldwide. reforestation covering an area about the size of the united states a massive undertaking. but the idea was an appealing one, a promise to save the climate with a simple act, planting trees. but the initial euphoria soon began to ebb. critics included scientists who called the idea unrealistic

in germany, the university of barnes i called luling was one of the 1st scientists to speak out, skipped them some. i'm in their studio, i'm eager. there are a number of questions. the authors of that study need to address is all of that land actually suited to planting trees. all in that time they see a lot of potential in the taiga, in the tundra, in regions that are too cold. the trees yawn, they want to plant trees in the savannah, which is nothing like a forest. a savannah has lots of grass, land them, and just a few trees, osland, ones or tanisha winter ships. and you have to be realistic if the trees would need watering, tending to, with millions or even billions of new trees. who's going to do that work the fun semester. and was a human figure that is all come you run him in western australia, a huge tree planting. project is already underway. it's

a landscape that isn't exactly welcoming for young saplings. the soil is dry, the terrain is uneven. salinity can be a problem for staff members of the environmental tech startup. lord of the trees. the work here is a challenge. planting trees by hand here would be extremely time consuming. that's why david tenant and ma mode. hussein are using drone technology. a drone can distribute seeds evenly from the air quickly when it comes to planting trees, can it believes drones are the future? it's a great, big balancing act to know. can we replace the trees faster than people are destroying them? this technology that we've developed is going to be fantastic and doing that. this

is really the future for saving the planet. for each patch of land can, it creates a special mix of seeds. but distributing these seeds is just one step towards planting of forest. technology is, is going to bit play a big role. and just for instance, in drones, not only do eat, you know, map the area we, we are, you know, so the said we monitor. but we can actually plant, sees where in the human it be us and congo. it oil dangerous with that person to do a drone can so almost $7000.00 seeds an hour, a job that would take a humans 6 days, david kennett burst planted trees here, 20 years ago. now he's testing various planting methods on different plots of land, like many countries, australia has been felling woodland to make way for agriculture. can it says that's

a mistake. ground water levels have plummeted. a problem for young trees load. this is one of hundreds of varieties of eucalyptus, of drawing on the property. and i chose them specifically to be salt tolerance, which is important because as soon to such a big problem in this area, right. and also i like um, with large leaves because with a lot of the leaves of the most common sequestration takes place to address climate change while it's up. but it's a double whammy david. can it only plants trees that are native to australia, they're suited to the local land and climate. non native species and mano cultures would further damage the soil. but even local species don't have it easy here. this is a bit of a sad specimen. this could seem what it was, dod um, it could have died for variety of reasons unsuitable for the soil taught or could

be being completed for neutral to tetra from the street. but when we're sewing seeds, that term you'll be sewing with your drones, will be sewing varieties, which are particularly suited to the sol taught. did a good thing with drones, is that we can monitor. so a 2 month later, 3 months later with fly, this a flight path, right? or we can tell how they progressing. now that is one and we will be able to give you a report. we says that particular trees healthy this one down the road is not this drone as taking off with seats from a type of acacia tree native to the region. this technology could help plant millions of new trees. if all goes well, a new forest will soon take root. here in ireland, new forests have already been planted,

but climate protection isn't the only goal here. landowners such as brendan lynch and county lead from want to harvest their trees back in the day. lynch's father was able to earn a living from cattle farming. but those times are long gone. it's not possible to make full time live unnoticed of it, a fif production. and any more, it's just it's just income as soon dropped to watch over the past 3 or 4 years. that is just not possible without a job to you need to have a job as well as farm. lynch has placed his hopes in the fast growing sit cuz spruce he's planted by hector's, of them on his land. the moist rich soil is well suited to the evergreen species, where the cisco spruce is, is there. we said the bread and bought a really off of say, plantations. you have to look at the economics of it as well. and there's no point

in plant in something that you can't sell down the line you know, and years to come. when it's caught down, i hope to get anything from 8 or 9000 you as an acre for december, which is hex free. like brandon lynch, thousands of irish farmers have planted spruce trees for harvest. the irish government says these plantations are also a boon to the climate. it was all settled, but many environmental activists say that's not the case. and a lead from citizens initiative agrees, and they say the monoculture plantations do more harm than good not too long ago, adrian kelly's farm was surrounded by spruce trees. then the entire plantation was clear cut practically over night. it was a disaster for the soil ecology and the land now lies fallow. but there were problems even before the plantation was clear, cut with shadow and might end cuz weird the northern say the sean said, well, the feed though good. 3040 meters out. the fee, so this was,

had become useless if i want to take, spend the hold and i can't expand because as you can see, i can't go so i can't go east edith soon. new spruce trees will be planted here for the local activists. monoculture, plantations are nothing but green washing their money makers. yes. but the health of the soil, biodiversity, and even the beauty of the natural landscape, don't factor into the equation. he can see here that and it's really a dead zone, like nothing grows on the 1st floor. he can see down at our feet that there is like 3 or 4 centimeters of pine needles gathered. and he can see like in a living the like look, everything is just snapped off dead and nothing, nothing lives here. it's not

a place that we want to come. walk in or want to see next to us. it's no good for, for anybody by the people who are making money. the economic arguments don't always hold up monoculture. plantations are particularly susceptible to climate change on the plantation belonging to brendan lynch. his brother, a storm did major damage. no, i said the wind come in, they are the helper high coroner, under the bit of pe, he went groan. the fairfield seemed to talk, took that little corner of a day of the rest, restless and is fairly good. it's all old. standing in ireland shows that more needs to be done to make the timber industry, climate friendly now sailor, from one of which ones. and for i think i see the disadvantage of mono cultures is that they aren't particularly stable ecologically speaking. if i plant only one species,

it's often vulnerable to pass off to thrive on that species fair to effect all in their a climate stresses like drown, ford, and let's, and john us in recent years, what we've seen is that a forest with a mix of tree species is more resilient or seen different species provide more balance. if one suffering the other might be a bit more robust and best off. as, as i this we all spelling theater in germany, policy makers are already putting that knowledge into action. they are planting trees to help restore healthy, mixed deciduous, and can never as forests, forests sequestered carbon by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. through photosynthesis, the trees transform it into bio mass. mixed forests sequester more carbon than mano cultures do. ah, today i cut looting is an a forest south east of bon. he's carrying out

measurements on various trees, a trees height, the diameter of its trunk, and its age are an indication of how much c o 2, a tree can remove. conf. forest trees absorb less c o 2 than deciduous. once a 40 meter spruce with a trunk that's about 60 centimeters in diameter, removes about 4 tons of c o. 2 from the atmosphere. a pine tree of the same size removes only 5 tons and oak of similar size removes 6 tons of c o 2. and the front runner is the beach at 7 tons. ah, this is a beach tree. lou harris, hidden and i've measured the diameter of this tree at about chest height,

about 1.3 meters from what was ground level. somebody yet above flesh of object. here we have about 2.31 meters for the diameter. that would be about here on summit, on the i see vows on the 5th. yeah. i mean it's 0. so i can look here to see how much bio mass that corresponds to view about 4 tons so, so as on my own. and here you can see the corresponding amount of c o 2 fighting the magnet. so we can assume that this tree removed something like 8 tons of c o 2 resort at law. i only ought on say it's why off nominate about one 3rd of germany is covered in woodland. but the carbon sequestered o 2 emissions large is, are a boon to the climate. a giant like this beach can in tons of c o 2. but some young and old trees is most effective.

for anything to really think on some very few fi. imagine a forest filled with huge trees like this, then it move a lot more c o 2 hm. as, as i want to, but of course that's impossible on these 3 doesn't just have a big trunk with lots of carbon in it, up to where you don't each leaf canopy here. when you look at the ground here, you sit near a huge tree like this. or not a whole lot can grow he oxen debt of a healthy forest when it is felled or dies the car but for quite some time. so it the climate friendly. that's true if the wood is burned, it says mrs. mars persevered from c a quit t would, leaves the forest to sacrifice as look like carbon is sequestered, miss, if it's not on c path overnight through the, for some to p. if we let it ross from the cup and will be released of course

movement, but we've got plans for this would unless we can out of it or wooden beams. i know that one carbon stays sequestered. awesome. so the girl impact his positive form via him conceive back in australia, the non scientific research and the perfect future forest at the plant bank, near sidney m, do wants to figure out which seed mixture worked on reforestation projects with botanist gram arrington who matches seed mixtures with and ecosystems helps the would kinda fly going, you know, and blinking now since he's coming to understand, no stat will she, her it is ah,

and substitutes with blockers. but supplement what we hackers and diversity to maintain it. so i see to work to integrate due to so the 2 could work together. the better business to local conditions, the more is that trees will thrive, but a new forest to life. emerick do, and his team are planning to test that in the blue mountains near sidney. there's what happened in nature when cleared land regenerates, trees don't grow right away. first come grasses and shrubs. look to grand clover 1st year before trips. so you wouldn't just plan to train, you hop, korea to hold ecosystem ah, native crises like picture today, a new shrubs. fill you out. these the but

a fries and burn room have fruits it up and when the birds arrive there though seasons get the full homes and special seed capsules to me, birds dispersed seeds. we sit, andy, go, farrah was charlie switch that flowers purple. when we select a tough of seats that were for landscape, he's the topography ah, it's time for left off each $120.00 seeds a minute, a prodigious amount. when the shrubs start to grow, can bite for trees to follow, but poorest is a long one. and we

had to india and the state of chat, his gar, near the city of ry poor, a 10 project. his underway, indeed been dioxide worldwide. the cut trees can help change that. but reforestation programs here don't always meet with approval. the indigenous advocacy people are vocal critics of col, reforestation measures. they say it is stealing their land plant to indigenous communities. amolla, fucked. are they gonna agree on this land and farmed it? i have all my papers to judge now guar. i farmed this land but not on hold for their plantation in those this land is our livelihood in the rain bedding of the

plantation owner of ah, they're taking place in india, but this cross a 3rd of its territory. none the less ah forest tres say the government's policy will be out of asi people to benefit the environment. follow arming? be sure. major chill. india has a lack of forest anson, and that i be seeing to global warming to sun jokey. i gotta hang on tight. it's like this will make a difference security abducted dachelle able storing the balance of nature, groman ahmad, me and i headed out from when i was among the problem in india. that's to which to mixed forests with fruit and timber trees,

but determined to fight back the pastry laws here, give them the right to farm the land. it's ation rife with conflict. we look at the sesame plant. they up who did it and why do that? they took oxen and farming equipment to leave their hands in small tools and the ranger keeps denying it. he says he took nothing. ah, indian authorities built of border fence for their plantation here without local and of asi community now really destroyed the fence. they get in get good, they have we be and they are, this is their sacred gro, half it, yeah, this, the was never used for any fan of land, isn't you living there? or theoretically, no farms not going to love this. the was reserved for, for,

it was yet, and we set up a plantation here. the up front is income at the plant theft, rifle shot over local communities. acu is, are heard frequently here. one thing is certain, the tins between the auto bossy people and forestry officials are getting worse. the better of this kind of problem. climate organizations fund projects that seek to resolve such conflicts, but jacks have little to show in india or anywhere else. the out of asi remain wary over the years they've suffered repression and discrimination. and they are not what they claim to be

me. who's there? got it? bound trees for our farm. wasn't the real dangerous, clear cut old forests and give that land to industry enough that even though they're pulling out the land from within their mining the minerals full of the factories and industry or why the climate is getting hotter and why the seasons are changing? so much, oh, i see that i thought i thought we brought by farming the top soil rather than digging it up already while i'm on the well making use of the outer layer i haven't ah, developing nations or being pressured to plant more trees but answered reforestation. programs ignore the needs of local people. i based the answer is yes . i, samar, proceed. russia you what? what's happening right now is that industrialized countries emit endless amounts of

c o 2. and yet, we expect developing countries and poor countries to counteract those the local people are often ignored. so wagner, m ah, and fitly needs more trees. so it's also come to appreciate. here in germany, young students are planting trees as part of a school project. decided i i forest and lars for yon worked with prima clemmer association and they organized today's project themselves. yeah. hi dawn gwin causing a project like this. it has a special impacting doesn't the is really take root,

remiss now it's years they'll be able to observe what's growing here up. and the more respect the nature that all that is hugely important and they're fun and they're really into it. it's a joy to watch off on for i also insulin. i them to reflect on things that they go to climate demonstrations here. and donald's on the way home. he's on his arms or maybe they'll ride their bikes to school. so those small steps can help make the world a better place signs and have an impact on their lives. less of our best on them i've. that's the most important lesson have always loved us. lanchen re include a mix of species, not the chill planting. common oak trees and called the common horn beam. their house later forests in a flood plain like this with the species with planting to day and create by verse bio totes we have here in europe. this has guns,

guns. they're really special of the, the children may not know that yet it's but other than they'll learn more about it often. and eventually they'll realize they created something really special, comes from that experience, will stay with them. that of young falling romwell, wrote climate doesn't always mean planting millions of trees on massive plantations and re patient can't be a fig leaf for massive carbon emissions. some fema rhonda reads, fight against climate change, lamishia treat huge amounts of c o 2 me t m. but we, amid far more than they can ever cope windows such is can't solve our problem is on to mitigate climate change. we'll have to tackle our energy, use them, and act habits in all sorts of ways understand simply change, but simply planting trees is not enough to combat climate change but done well, reforestation programs are a step in the right direction. mm

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