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https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/new-tree-tech-cutting-edge-drones-give-reforestation-a-helping-hand/>
"Vast tracts of forest have been cleared by logging, degraded by a range of
other human activities, consumed by wildfires, and ravaged by invasive insects.
Restoring these forests is crucial to curbing global climate change and
bringing wild species back from the brink of extinction. But the scale of the
challenge before us is huge and time is short.
Although some forests can recover naturally with the right protection and
support, others need more intensive help in the form of replanting. This need
has spawned heavily promoted tree-planting projects that tackle the challenge
manually, sending thousands of volunteers into the field to plant saplings by
hand, one by one.
While these efforts are inspirational, they’re also labor-intensive and
cumbersome to organize, and can’t reach degraded land that’s inaccessible by
road or where volunteers are few. More importantly, they can’t achieve
reforestation at the planetwide scales or timeframe needed to address the
climate and biodiversity crises and meet international reforestation targets.
Clearly, whatever methods humanity settles on to restore millions of hectares
of lost and degraded forest in the 21st century, it will require a herculean
effort. But lacking Hercules, it looks like robots may be up to the job."
Via
Future Crunch:
https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-clean-energy-aids-big-cats-africa/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
