Showing posts with label Geoff Layton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geoff Layton. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Champions of Reforestation

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 239-365



By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits believes he has found a way to re-grow clear cut rain forest in Borneo, saving local orangutans — and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

Reforestation in this case
  • created  3000 jobs
  • restored micro climate
  • grow agricultural crops between trees
  • reduce the competition for the trees
  • The crop fertilizer helps the trees
  • The farmers have free land
  • The orangutans get healthy food
  • Reduce growing expenditures
  • While speeding up ecosystem regeneration

 Fire protection for the future

Here are some other principles of Permaculture

  • Create a ring of Sugar palms around the forest that are fire resistant.
  • A natural forest uses the space above ground and under ground more efficient.
  • Regeneration from fast growing short lived trees species that will restore the micro climate for later species.
  • Create a multilayer forest of diverse trees that capture maximum of sunlight to create maximum of biomass.

The result in 3 years after reforestation 137 species of birds appear in the forest.
More rain clouds have been formed.
The climate was changed.

Concluzion

Make sure the forest stay there.

Other Project other people that are behid these projects
Sama Sarhan Reforestation Project Jordan

Geoff Layton

The greatest project I have seen so far on 10 acres of desert salty land transformed in food  forest


China

Western China is turning into a massive dust bowl. Desertification now affects fully one-third of the world's population -- and what's happening in Western China represents the largest conversion of productive land to desert anywhere in the world, consuming over one million acres of land each year. The dust isn't confined to the west: every spring, massive sandstorms roar through Beijing, blanketing the city with tons of dust.
 
 








We can start rebuilding the nature one person at a time one forest at a time in spite of governments and logging companies that see just money in the environment with no respect for the earth.



Links

http://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LJ8pjOG4pXI