What No One Tells You About Forest Restoration
What do you know about forests?
Have you been in one?
Did you ever wonder how forests come to existence?
These are merely a handful of questions young children have about forests. It’s priceless to see a child roaming in a forest for the first time. So many things to explore and so little time. Growing up, most people lose this sense of excitement or curiosity towards the wonders of nature.
But TreeCoin, we hold the same curiosity about forests as children do. Therefore, we decided to cover some of the most popular forest plantation and reforestation techniques in this post.
How do people restore forests or plant new ones?
Passive Restoration or Natural Regeneration
Passive restoration is the process of giving an ecosystem sufficient time to recover on its own. The forest, through natural regeneration, recuperates its total or at least partial biodiversity when given enough time. A forest may take between 30 years and a couple of hundred years to reach its original state. However, passive restoration doesn’t work in case of an ecosystem’s ecological collapse. According to a UN report, over a million species are likely to go extinct over the next couple of decades if climate change continues at this rate.
Applied Nucleation
Applied nucleation is a restoration technique suitable for forests that have sustained excessive damage. Under this restoration approach, a diverse species of trees are planted in the degraded zone. They usually include a mixture of native and some fast-growing alien species. The Applied nucleation strategy involves planting seedlings, plant residue, and soil transposition.
Philippines’ Forestry Folly in 1913
While some may consider reforestation as a random process, it takes a lot of planning. Moreover, to succeed, there should be an in-depth understanding of the natural ecosystem. The Philippines made a colossal forestry mistake in 1913 when it planted an alien species for reforestation — mahogany trees — under a restoration drive. Several factors, such as the fast growth of mahogany trees, their widespread canopies, unpalatable leaves, and annual seed production, lead to their uncontrolled growth. They thereby gave them an advantage over several native species.
TreeCoin: Taking a scientific approach in our plantation and reforestation efforts
TreeCoin is aware of the importance of research in vast plantations. Our team has done extensive research, before choosing a hybrid eucalyptus for the project. These included soil examination, weather patterns, water availability, and soil’s acidic analysis. In fact, TreeCoin aims to run sustainable timber production operations with the help of technology and scientific research.
Do you want to know more about our project? Then read our whitepaper here or ask questions using this link.
Originally published at https://tree-coin.io on October 7, 2019.
