@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social
2025-10-06 12:07 UTC
“Over the last five years, we’ve seen quite a few global assessments of reforestation potential. They often come with huge numbers, and they often come with a profound lack of ecological understanding. They might be very good at global modeling of satellite data, but they have no understanding of the reality on the ground.”
“When you bring humans into landscapes and try managing landscapes where people live, all of a sudden, this stuff becomes very complex.”
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/the-world-is-banking-on-planting-billions-of-trees-to-slow-climate-change-but-the-math-doesnt-add-up/
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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2026-07-05 10:45
Massive tree planting initiatives rely on lots of people planting a tree. In Kenya, a tree planting app could monitor how well the trees do over time. "President William Ruto has said Kenyans planted 750 million trees in 2024, reaffirming the country's commitment to its ambitious goal of growing 15 billion trees by 2032. In 2023 President Ruto launched an application dubbed JazaMiti to be used by Kenyans or institutions to document their tree-planting activities." https://eastleighvoice.co.ke/index.php/climate-change/113985/kenyans-planted-750-million-trees-in-2024-ruto