Beautiful place to visit! Just a couple of hours drive from Bengaluru city (technically across the state border in Tamil Nadu). It was a barren, over grazed 100 acres of land. They just fenced the property, and let the soil recover and a forest grew up in a short time !
Just 100 acres.. hmm.. thought would be much larger, what with all the animals he'd mentioned.. 100 acres is hardly 10 sq kms.. just seems too small a place
Wonderful thing is they bought the land and let nature raise it.. no manual intervention... thats the beauty of land in India.. its really rich.. its getting bullied since last 200 years..
Beautiful!!!! I would to see that all over India 🇮🇳!!!! I was just watching about the air pollution in their cities is equivalent to 25 cigarettes a day. Reforestation will solve this! Nature’s heals itself
@Svenulf Skjaldbjörn Delhi seems to have a decent metro system. But the mindset of people to own and use a car has been built over generations and won't go away so easily. Electric cars maybe all futuristic but electric trains (which have been around for much longer) are hundreds of times better. Moreover, while metro seems to get all the hype, it has nowhere as much carrying capacity as the traditional suburban rail system (which Mumbai has). Reforestation is important, but it alone won't help. Most of Delhi's air pollution comes from crop burning which releases partiulate matter into the atmosphere, something trees can't help with.
No it’s not alarmist. I’m an ecologist in Australia. We are the front line of climate change. We’ve denuded our landscape, and although it’s a complex story, to put it simply we’re fucked. Running out of water, 2/3 of the country in drought, including areas that were rainforest. And our whole east coast is on fire. No events on this scale has been seen before.
Great to see some love going back into the land for recovery. Just 2 things, please make sure alien invasive like that prickly pear cactus are removed and watch out for other alien plants as they destroy your ecosystem. Also l would have thought the cattle need a section of proper well managed grassland to thrive. Grassland with native grasses is a fine important habitat too, if not overgrazed.
The cropland and rangeland should alternate regularly to repair the soil and create more nutrient dense food and sequester carbon dioxide. Checkout the Savory institute' Gabe Brown, Joel Salitin, Dr.Ingram soil scientist.
Trees like coconut. Jackfruit(vegetable meat),banyan, peeple umber pilkhan, jamun. Mango, cocum..shamali, babool, teek wood, popler,margosa,dates,Ritha Shikekai, kanchan, maulashri pangara many other. After greening land move further. Take cooperation of regional people. Will get quick results
Would like more information about how this was accomplished. What was planted to attract the birds? How were the water swells created and maintained? How were pests managed, such as mosquitos in the standing water systems? Was irrigation a part of this project?
Great ... the fringes of the boondocks gains SOME meekness. Let's hope the STATE OF INDIA enacts some measure of population growth, WHILE You endeavor to feed everyone. EXTENSIVE, AND INTENSIVE EFFORTS ARE NEEDED NOW, MORE THAN EVER.
Also start planting tall,spreading shadows useful plants from the seeds fruits flowers of which get daily needs &income. Why not try planting from sea coast suitable climate,soil sea water for trees of our mother planet.Will get quick results using sea water
😐sheer losers!! Ppl who don't appreciate nature are morons period why else is the Amazon burning the Indonesian rainforests depleting and the earth choking with toxic waste .. all thanks to us ignorant humans and our petty greed 😢
Not true. Biochar is just another form of "fertilizer". Healthy soil does not need input like biochar. Watch video of Dr. Christine Jones, Dr. Walter Jehne, Dr. Elaine Ingham.
If every fifth person on earth planted a tree, it'd likely solve climate change. It wouldn't sell electric cars or other contrivances marketed as a solution :)
@Donald Kasper Thanks for the reply. I farm in the northern outskirts of Europe. Howecer i was on a cycling trip down your west coast in 2016. Saw signs government issued dustbowl or something and didnt find anything on Google about it but that clears it up just now.. Its not easy being the one in charge but sounds like itd be fair to fund something like this on the taxpayer's dime. Glad you made it through somehow though.. What is it youre growing?
NGOs are much better at it, much higher impact than government reforestation water harvesting projects where money spent 10 times more than that spent by NGOs & activists disappears without any trace or impact.
Beautiful place to visit! Just a couple of hours drive from Bengaluru city (technically across the state border in Tamil Nadu).
It was a barren, over grazed 100 acres of land. They just fenced the property, and let the soil recover and a forest grew up in a short time !
Just 100 acres.. hmm.. thought would be much larger, what with all the animals he'd mentioned.. 100 acres is hardly 10 sq kms.. just seems too small a place
They did not only fence it, they also put in swales and other water harvesting structures AND they let the soil recover and the plants grow
@@SinghalLouis you start small and let people see that it works
A great story. One of many that should inspire everyone who wants humanity to have a decent future.
Great work. Thank you for the filmography. Thank you to the presenter for the explanation.
It's a remarkable achievement. Thank you all.
hope in humanity restored!
Wonderful thing is they bought the land and let nature raise it.. no manual intervention... thats the beauty of land in India.. its really rich.. its getting bullied since last 200 years..
.definitely a better way of living too
Wonderful! This is very great to see!
Thank you for sharing this informative and inspiring video.
This is truly astonishing!
This is wonderful
Now upscale this 100000 times
Great work! You folks are an inspiration.
Wonderful project.
I would love to see the documentation of the project and for the greater area of several thousand hectares!
Beautiful!!!! I would to see that all over India 🇮🇳!!!! I was just watching about the air pollution in their cities is equivalent to 25 cigarettes a day.
Reforestation will solve this! Nature’s heals itself
@Svenulf Skjaldbjörn Delhi seems to have a decent metro system. But the mindset of people to own and use a car has been built over generations and won't go away so easily. Electric cars maybe all futuristic but electric trains (which have been around for much longer) are hundreds of times better.
Moreover, while metro seems to get all the hype, it has nowhere as much carrying capacity as the traditional suburban rail system (which Mumbai has).
Reforestation is important, but it alone won't help. Most of Delhi's air pollution comes from crop burning which releases partiulate matter into the atmosphere, something trees can't help with.
Very cool
If this doesn't happen everywhere we all die.
So what are you doing to help?
LMAO. moron alarmist at work.
No it’s not alarmist. I’m an ecologist in Australia. We are the front line of climate change. We’ve denuded our landscape, and although it’s a complex story, to put it simply we’re fucked. Running out of water, 2/3 of the country in drought, including areas that were rainforest. And our whole east coast is on fire. No events on this scale has been seen before.
@@CitizenAyellowblue Got any ideas for how to fix it? It's not every day that I can ask an ecologist :)
Scott O'Keeffe the sky is falling give us all your money or you die!!!!!!
Great to see some love going back into the land for recovery. Just 2 things, please make sure alien invasive like that prickly pear cactus are removed and watch out for other alien plants as they destroy your ecosystem. Also l would have thought the cattle need a section of proper well managed grassland to thrive. Grassland with native grasses is a fine important habitat too, if not overgrazed.
In other locations where reforestation has been attempted they end up cutting the grass and bringing it to the cattle to prevent overgrazing.
The cropland and rangeland should alternate regularly to repair the soil and create more nutrient dense food and sequester carbon dioxide.
Checkout the Savory institute' Gabe Brown, Joel Salitin, Dr.Ingram soil scientist.
Hope for the future
Hope for better future :) :) always
Great initiative and commendable Work!
Trees like coconut. Jackfruit(vegetable meat),banyan, peeple umber pilkhan, jamun. Mango, cocum..shamali, babool, teek wood, popler,margosa,dates,Ritha Shikekai, kanchan, maulashri pangara many other. After greening land move further. Take cooperation of regional people. Will get quick results
The farmers in Central Valley, California, complaint about the drought and difficulty from getting water. I wonder what they can learn from here.
Keep the "financiers" away.
Would like more information about how this was accomplished. What was planted to attract the birds? How were the water swells created and maintained? How were pests managed, such as mosquitos in the standing water systems? Was irrigation a part of this project?
There is a youtube channel called downtoearth. You can check some of their videos.
Great documentary
@2:44: I admire what they've done, but 100 acres is nothing for an elephant or a leopard.
Exactly my thought..
Look up a man called Jadav Payeng. His forest is home to tigers, elephants and rhinos.
I like it a lot, but didn't bill mollison start this community??
Great ... the fringes of the boondocks gains SOME meekness.
Let's hope the STATE OF INDIA enacts some measure of population growth, WHILE You endeavor to feed everyone.
EXTENSIVE, AND INTENSIVE EFFORTS ARE NEEDED NOW, MORE THAN EVER.
You should turn your saturation up, the video is very bland
Add credit to the CO2 that Humanity has added to the atmosphere.
Also start planting tall,spreading shadows useful plants from the seeds fruits flowers of which get daily needs &income. Why not try planting from sea coast suitable climate,soil sea water for trees of our mother planet.Will get quick results using sea water
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4 dislikes really?
Now it's 7
😐sheer losers!! Ppl who don't appreciate nature are morons period why else is the Amazon burning the Indonesian rainforests depleting and the earth choking with toxic waste .. all thanks to us ignorant humans and our petty greed 😢
India do need charcoal...and use it like ancient south america Indians XD
(biochar black soils are stable even NOW!)
Not true. Biochar is just another form of "fertilizer". Healthy soil does not need input like biochar. Watch video of Dr. Christine Jones, Dr. Walter Jehne, Dr. Elaine Ingham.
👍👍👍😊😊😊
If every fifth person on earth planted a tree, it'd likely solve climate change. It wouldn't sell electric cars or other contrivances marketed as a solution :)
@Donald Kasper well, there is, unless you say there wasnt sn ice age. What it depends on you cant say.
@Donald Kasper Thanks for the reply. I farm in the northern outskirts of Europe. Howecer i was on a cycling trip down your west coast in 2016. Saw signs government issued dustbowl or something and didnt find anything on Google about it but that clears it up just now.. Its not easy being the one in charge but sounds like itd be fair to fund something like this on the taxpayer's dime. Glad you made it through somehow though.. What is it youre growing?
Tn
NGOs are much better at it, much higher impact than government reforestation water harvesting projects where money spent 10 times more than that spent by NGOs & activists disappears without any trace or impact.
What a waste of effort. You could just use carbon tax. That what Justin Trudeau does, snd it works ... not.
I almost didn't read the 'not'..
JUST KEEP THE CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA COMIN BOY!
More trees = more water. Go figure.
but muh climate change rrrrrrreeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEE