{"id":17569,"date":"2018-03-17T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/?p=17569"},"modified":"2018-11-26T20:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:49:55","slug":"reforestation-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/reforestation-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon: the world’s largest reforestation project in history is underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s largest ever tropical reforestation effort is Planting 73 Million Trees in the Brasilian Amazon. After years of devastation, finally good news for our planet’s green lung.<\/em><\/h2>\n

Brazil gives green a chance. The larger ever project of reforestation, promoted by the US ONG Conservation International, will introduce 73 million of new trees<\/strong> in an area sadly known as ‘arc of deforestation’<\/em>, spreading from North-Western Brazil to the river basin of Xingo in the centre of the Country.<\/p>\n

In the next six years<\/strong> 23 million ha will be repopulated, moving down the ruthless deforestation which took place for years in favour of intensive farming.<\/p>\n

Reforesting the Amazon to stop climate change<\/h2>\n

M. Sanjayan, CEO of Conservation, underlines how important are rainforests for the safeguard of the planet<\/strong>: their reforestation<\/strong> represents a key-action<\/strong> to reduce global warming and its bad effects on the environment.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because a greener Amazon could absorb up to 37%<\/strong> of our CO2<\/strong> yearly emissions, claims the ONG, reaching considerable steps in a sustainable and environmental view.<\/p>\n

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Carbon Stored in Earth’s Tropical Forests
Benchmark map of carbon stored in Earth\u2019s tropical forests. Amazon is the biggest green lung of the Planet. Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/UCLA\/Winrock International\/Colorado State University\/University of Edinburgh\/Applied GeoSolutions\/University of Leeds\/Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux\/Wake Forest University\/University of Oxford<\/div><\/div>\n

Muvuca: the innovative reforestation technique<\/h2>\n

The project will adopt an innovative planting technique<\/strong>, recently developed by Brazilian farmers, named muvuca<\/em><\/strong> (literally, crowd of people in a narrow space).<\/p>\n

This strategy consists in spreading more than 200 native seed species<\/strong> for each square meter of deforested land.<\/p>\n

The \u201ccrowd\u201d of future trees sown in a such limited area will see a natural selection<\/strong>, based on nutriment from the ground and solar light, which will allow to grow only the strongest exemplars.<\/p>\n

According to studies from Food and Agriculture and Biodiversity International<\/em>, thanks to muvuca rainforests have a 90% of trees<\/strong> that can survive without water for over six months.<\/p>\n