May 9, 2024
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The Canary Islands are using innovative “cloud-milking” nets to capture fog water and restore drought-stricken forests.
From the article:
“We developed a system that imitates pine needles, which are very good for capturing water while also letting the air pass through, and it’s a system that can easily be replicated in other locations and that’s also easy to transport to where it’s needed.” After fog passes through the metal fronds and water droplets fall into containers below, Life Nieblas workers use the water to irrigate vulnerable new saplings as they rebuild the forest. “The Canaries are the perfect laboratory to develop these techniques,” said Vicenç Carabassa, the project’s head scientist. “But there are other areas where the conditions are optimal and where there is a tradition of water capture from fog, such as Chile and Morocco.” “We’re living with drought throughout the Mediterranean and also in the Canaries,” Carabassa added. “And now, every drop of water counts.”
Desertification around the world
Watching content about rewilding and especially fighting desertification is so wild, like a lot of the time instead of using fancy technology to keep the plants alive, the techniques they use are literally just techniques that the natives developed over centuries until Europeans came along and told them they are primitive.
Like one technique that you see time and time again with that second category is to literally just dig semicircular basins into the soil. The semicircle catches rainwater and any trees there can penetrate the ground more easily, thus both preventing runoff AND loosening the soil for other plants to follow, and it's just a waiting game from there. Thing is this technique was practiced in Subsaharan Africa by all sorts of cultures until Europeans went "Okay but what if instead of doing that, you cut down the local ecosystem to grow cash crops?"
Dang it's almost like the locals knew what they were doing.
We’re using underground forests to turn the desert green without planting a single tree.
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Across Africa, forests are disappearing faster than anywhere else on Earth.
But hidden under the surface, a solution is waiting:
Underground Forests. Root systems that are still alive and with the potential to restore huge areas of barren landscape.
In our 33rd mission, we're drawing on ancient wisdom and the discovery of an Australian agriculturist to help these underground forests burst out.
A special thanks to World Vision, Justdiggit and Richard Allenby-Pratt for additional footage and photos.
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Chapters
0:00 Turning a desert into a forest
0:39 Why tree planting fails in Africa’s drylands
1:55 Discovering the underground forest
2:16 Tony’s breakthrough in Niger
4:58 Learning Kisiki Hai with Samuel and the Lead Foundation
5:37 How farmer-managed natural regeneration works
7:09 How Ecosia turns your searches into trees
8:52 Champion farmers regreening Tanzania
10:26 From living stumps to lasting change
Links
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A green belt circling the capital of Burkina Faso is preparing the country for the climate crisis
A green belt in Burkina Faso cools surroundings, feeds residents. Started in the 1970s, the belt surrounds the capital city of Ouagadougou preventing desertification, cooling the city, and promoting urban agriculture. Many residents make a living by growing vegetables on their allotments, an added value for the greenbelt, which has seen renewed impetus following last year’s deadly heatwave.
via fixthenews.com
They released 500 giant reptiles into a barren stretch of the Sahara. Five years later, satellites spotted green where only sand had been.
Aufforstungsprojekte in der Sahel scheiterten, weil der Boden das Wasser nicht halten konnte. Mithilfe des Grabedrangs der einheimischen Spornschildkröte gelang es, Höhlen im ausgetrockneten Boden anzulegen, in denen sich Wasser sammelte und so endlich eine Aufforstung ermöglichte.