10 drones can plant 400,000 trees in a single day!
They:
- provide oxygen we need to breathe
- improve air quality
- reduce soil erosion
- protect the ozone layer
- prevent water pollution
- provide food protection and homes for millions of birds and mammals
- they beautify our environments
- they provide shade, lowering our need for on air conditioners and electricity
A project in Myanmar is using technology, in the form of drones, to seed trees. This case study on how technology might be used to innovate our way out of the climate change crisis is novel and, so far, quite successful.
A year after seeding thousands of those 'seed missiles' they've grown into 20-inch mangrove saplings. This is uplifting and a quick read.
Read all about it here, and watch a video of the process here.
Arbor Day is coming April 26th. Will you be planting a tree or two? Here are six more ways that trees benefit us all.