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Oxford-based start-up Biocarbon Engineering is planning to fight industrial deforestation by planting 1 billion trees a year using drones.Currently, 26 billions trees are cut down every year, while only 15 billions are replanted. The drones used by Biocarbon Engineering could solve the problem by making tree planting faster and cheaper.
Yatta, Apr 9 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Abed Al Hashlamoun) Palestinian farmers planted olive trees on Friday in the village of Yatta, near Hebron, to protest against Israeli settlements on their lands.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
San Cristóbal de las Casas (Mexico), Dec. 15 (EFE / EPA) .- What were corn crops became Christmas tree plantations, in a sustainable project promoted by Tzotzil Indigenous from the Mexican state of Chiapas since 11 years ago.(CAMERA: Mitzi Fuentes)IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES FROM JOSÉ LÓPEZ CRUZ, NATIVE TZOTZIL AND JOSÉ MANUEL PAZCACIO VELAZQUEZ, DIRECTOR OF THE ENVIRONMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND SOCIETY, CIVIL ASSOCIATIONTRANSLATIONJOSÉ LÓPEZ CRUZ: 1. "It was agricultural land, but since we started planting the trees and they grew then we stopped planting corn and now we only have the trees"2. "In this project, only my family, my children work. Right now I already stopped working myself on this because I don't have time, and my children take care of it to support their families"JOSE MANUEL PAZCACIO VELAZQUEZ: 1. "In recent years, forest management has been greatly encouraged and in certain areas of the state there has even been forest recovery, and there is currently a state strategy that seeks to recover those forests. At a national level, we have the goal of zero deforestation by 2030, that is the first goal, but in Chiapas we also want to recover forest areas"
San Cristóbal de las Casas (Mexico), Dec. 15 (EFE / EPA) .- What were corn crops became Christmas tree plantations, in a sustainable project promoted by Tzotzil Indigenous from the Mexican state of Chiapas since 11 years ago.(CAMERA: Mitzi Fuentes)IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES FROM JOSÉ LÓPEZ CRUZ, NATIVE TZOTZIL AND JOSÉ MANUEL PAZCACIO VELAZQUEZ, DIRECTOR OF THE ENVIRONMENT, PRODUCTIVITY AND SOCIETY, CIVIL ASSOCIATIONTRANSLATIONJOSÉ LÓPEZ CRUZ: 1. "It was agricultural land, but since we started planting the trees and they grew then we stopped planting corn and now we only have the trees"2. "In this project, only my family, my children work. Right now I already stopped working myself on this because I don't have time, and my children take care of it to support their families"JOSE MANUEL PAZCACIO VELAZQUEZ: 1. "In recent years, forest management has been greatly encouraged and in certain areas of the state there has even been forest recovery, and there is currently a state strategy that seeks to recover those forests. At a national level, we have the goal of zero deforestation by 2030, that is the first goal, but in Chiapas we also want to recover forest areas"
Two Chilean environmentalists successfully deployed three Border Collies to plant trees in the region of El Maule, which was devastated in wildfires, in order to regrow the once bountiful forest. In January, eleven people lost their lives in wildfires that burned down more than 467,000 hectares of forest across the nation. These brave and joyful pups are helping bring back the trees.
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