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Fascinating video. I'm interested to know if European farming techniques for cash crops precipitated the worsening soil conditions. It's brilliant that a traditional indigenous farming practice is being restored. Certainly hope the farming methods described will help the people of the region thrive and halt desertification, even if it doesn't turn the whole Sahara green.
I'm still wondering about the need of firewood in the Sahel. I thought people would be more eager to use cooking-boxes with all the sun. Especially couscous, rice and lentils with vegetables turn out very well in cooking boxes after leaving them in there for some two or three hours. True: glass for the lid and tin-foil for the mirror-walls might be very hard to come by in the Sahel, but even if a cooking-box should be made out of wood: once you have it, it saves up much more wood - and trees - than cooking over fire. Perhaps some wood-saving organisation like the World-Bank should also hand out cooking boxes to the inhabitants, to save all the newly planted trees from the fate of ending up as firewood within a century. 🥺
They lack the knowledge taught through Holistic Management. It has paradigm shifting new knowledge and that is whats needed for dealing with a 10.000 year old problem. All this is just working in the same old paradigm and it wont stop desertification...
Water wasn't the issue in South Sudan, but the hospital where I worked needed more tree cover. I was there for a year and I must have planted at least 50 trees. I had a locally employed guy tending the seedlings and saplings until they were ready for planting around the extensive hospital site and expat living area. Since I left fighting broke out in the area and the hospital was trashed but I hope many of my trees survived!
@@bilbobaggins3389 the whole country exist, and broke away, because they found oil. China has a contract with Sudan, so US started a revolt in South Sudan , to make sure China doesn't get the oil.
What an epic accomplishment. I love the use of these almost forgotten techniques too. Now, we need the rest of the world to do projects like these all over the place! Bring it on.
I make these on my little acre in rural NSW, Australia. The remnant bushland that I am custodian of, gets a helping hand - each tree on the hilly bit get its own 'demi lune' (half moon). I knew it was important but this video shows me another reason of exactly just how...
That is fantastic. I had the privilege of a brief (20 years) learning time on a clay hillside in AotearoaNZL and have an interest in Soil health. I was able to rest the land and minimize select invading plants while the Native plants used the Gorse that I allowed to grow as protection. Using nature as a lesson👍
Awesome. I have the privilege of being a steward of 5 acres of woodland and marshlands. Is the past, the normal thing to do would be clear the land and drain the marsh for farming. Instead that, I'm going to use permaculture practices to create a sustainable garden.
This is absolutely incredible. I love seeing things like this. We all need to put our heads together and find ways, like this, to help restore our beautiful World. 🙏🙏🙏
Every home and business building needs to install a rain water collection system and water storage. With so little rain fall every drop that can be collected is valuable.
That would be ideal but that really depends on the setting as you can see ppl in Niger living in natural homes with grass roof, they cannot collect water from this roof, would it be better to replace their homes with a tin roof? It really depends, since grass roof natural building is alot more sustainable that importing other materials. But water harvesting and capture can be done in a variety of ways not just roofs
this is quite shortthinking. When you collect the rain water, it doesn`t drain into the soil and therefore not replenishing the sparsly ground water. It only may serve the collector and his crops for a while, but not the environment at all. And if the ground soil dries out too much, the own crop won't grow anyway anymore. And we got desertification. Building up a moist ground should be the goal, not egoistically using the rain for the own gain....as, btw these dug out water collectors work, which are shown in the video.
@@michaspringphul Until there is plant life to cover and decay there will never be moist soil. That is the point of collecting the water to start. There will be a time once the area is reforested that it will be unnecessary. Plants, animals and people will thrive just as they did before desertification.
...yer about one century too late ....FDR did that in 1930 in Arizona ...they are still there, by the hundreds .... half moons, for flash floods rainwater capture & collection ... with pick & shovel ...can be seen by satellite ... FDR won the war against the nazis too ...
The Southwest US was under the ocean and those minerals in the soil make it difficult. Even as far east as parts of Kansas have salt deposits. There are fossilized seashells all over the west.
You could redirect some of the money currently spent by the federal government on those 754 foreign America military bases around the world delivering “freedom and democracy” to this type of environmental investment. Imagine what one could achieve.
@@khunmikeon858 unfortunately that doesn't make the richest 1% richer. Most Americans have been made to believe the rest of the world would invade, so would object to cuts in weapons spending, even if that reduction funded better education, assisted healthcare, agricultural investment, cheaper food, better pensions.
Its amazing to see some water harvesting and Regenerative techniques can really make the desert bloom, the desert is not just a lifeless barren landscape it can be revived.
@@donHooligan I think you might not be quite familiar with the concept of proven scientific fact. I suggest you figure that much out and then do some light research on this subject so that next time you dont make any retarded comments. God bless.
This kinda explains why trees die in the subburbs. When people rake up the leaves, the trees dont get the natural food that makes them flourish year after year.
I've been following this a little bit when it was in the planning stages. I'm glad to hear it is working. I know they lost a lot of trees too start with, but that happens everywhere sometimes. Sounds like there are bouncing back and honing in on methods that work. Thanks for the info.
If that is true, which I suspect it is, why does the description of the video say that climate change is a human driven event caused by fossil fuel use? Climate has been cyclical since the beginning of time.
I moved into a heavily wooded neighborhood about 30 years ago. Over the years people have moved into the neighborhood, cut all of their trees down, and replaced the natural wooded lots with grass lawns. Over the same time period I added many additional trees, shrubs and bushes. The people who cut their trees down now have to run their air conditioners from February to October. Without air conditioners constantly running 24 hours a day,, their houses are unlivable. Their electric bills have increased to around $400.00 dollars a month. After reforesting our property the house is completely surrounded with trees, bushes shrubs and no longer requires an air conditioner to maintain a comfortable temperature. My electric bill has gone down to $89.00 a month. The yard is completely self sustaining and does not require mowing, watering, fertilizer, weed control, or any other expenses associated with having a lawn.
Historically the people that lived in these areas used the land correctly. They then in the 1920's and on tried to use western style flat land farming and killed off the land. It shouldnt have taken decades of research to fix the problem. Simply listening to the elders would have fixed the problem
If things like this can be done at little cost surely projects like these should become world wide to offset global warming - much better than arguing about who causes the most pollution - how about who can do more to offset it ? This is a really interesting channel that I have just come across and is extremely interesting - thank-you!
@@RealTechnophoria yeah everybody claims that climate change is somehow not a normal event or that mankind has some huge effect on it but that's total BS the fact of the matter is the planet has been warming steadily for the last 12,000 years or you and I would be under 2 miles of ice. It has way more to do with the sun and volcanic activity then mankind. The fact of the matter is all the human beings in history with all the carbon they've produced has only accounted for 0.004% of CO2 because don't forget man does not manufacture matter from nothing it was there long before you and I were around point being the rest is due to volcanoes rotting plant material and the millions and millions of animals and insects that inhale oxygen and breathe it out everyday that have been steadily growing in number since the end of the last ice age. The more CO2 there is the bigger plants grow the bigger plants get and the more of them there are the more oxygen is produced nature balances itself out and we are part of nature despite our claims that we are somehow in charge of it or not within its control. Climate change is just a way to restructure government power to try to redistribute wealth and power from those who provide value to those who do not using those who are too foolish to understand science and think on a short-term human lifetime basis and the fact of the matter is nothing me or you does is going to stop a volcano from erupting and pouring trillions of tons of CO2 and other gases into the atmosphere whether or not my car passes smog whether or not fossil fuels are burned. What will be affected is whether or not I can get to work and provide value to my employer and his customers what will be affected is whether or not people in the third world can develop their Nations and have clean water and medicine electricity roads and all that good stuff that we take for granted. So yeah of course the climate is changing at what point in history has the climate not been changing? And yes species are going extinct at what point in history has species not gone extinct? And that's without even getting into things like what if an asteroid hit the planet or what if fill in the blank that periodically causes mass extinctions anyways don't we want to be prepared for that isn't part of being prepared for that having as much knowledge and technology as we can get while conditions to do so are permissible I.e before the next ice age which is coming by the way.
The governments aren't bothered about anything really, its just a smoke screen to tax us and blame it on climate change, and that is the reason they won't do anything or they won't be able screw us over will they.
@@RealTechnophoria Correct, we are moving out of a mini ice age and we cannot stop the natural warming of the earth. Our governments know this are using this opportunity to increase fuel to fill their pockets and blame climate crisis, they are having the peoples pants down.
I'm so proud of these hard working people to take the initiative in reclaiming their lands and creating a sustainable environment. We should have been doing this for 50 years to sustain the planets ecosystems. Instead, we squeezed every last drop of profit out of it with no regards to future generations. I'm happy we are waking up as a species. Hey, it's cool what SpaceX is doing and all, but this is our current home and the only home that we know of that is suitable for our species.
Wow that is fantastic, that's the best news in a long time, that could be applied here in Australia, as we are a dry content too. Good for them, and bless them, they have done it hard for a long time.
it drives me crazy in cities they keep throwing tree leaves away like garbage and cutting grass - they plant only one species of trees causing alergies for the local population - people need education about basic biology and ecology everywhere
If United States is keen on reducing the destructive hurricanes on its eastern coast eg Florida, South and North Carolina, it must strongly support and fund greening of Sahara desert. This is where the storms begin to form and gain speed and momentum while travelling over the Atlantic ocean. But then, it may reduce the supply of nutrients to the Amazon Forests too.
I just love your videos, thank you for your efforts. The way the natural,world functions is so complex and it is so inspiring to see humans working with it. I seriously hope it works for them and it catches on, rather being sold some damaging and expensive industrial techniques. They also have excellent back strength and fitness!
@@Proton-KBHi, Interesting you should say that as I've been keeping tabs on the Lake mead drying up due to the drought situation that's had a couple of reprieves from rainfall and floods - but is still relentlessly drying up and losing water from time to time that has been alarming residents in the area to make videos on lake Mead. Are you aware that part of the problem with lake Mead drying up besides the drought can be traced back to two aqueducts that were created and built very early to mid last century by greedy and somewhat vested interests of one man who had power to influence a better outcome than what is seemingly now occurring in the Vegas area that could affect millions of residents in neighbouring counties and cities relying on the Hoover Dam for power supplies? One might ask why an Aussie from Victorian Australia even takes any interest in the affairs of American history and past relatively recent History at that? These video links are from my 'watched' history on YT - even though I've gotta scroll back quite a ways to find them again for you showing a man-made disaster in the making by diverting water from two American rivers just to supply water from the Colorado and Owens rivers to feed Los Angeles' growing demands for water last century at the cost of Neighbouring cities in the Vegas region being short changed from their water supplies and potentially hazarding the continued running of the Hoover Dam Hydro plant and water wars over water rights were even fought apparently: How Los Angeles Gets Its Water: A Complete History of The Los Angeles Aqueduct 574K views Completed on November 5, 1913, the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct stretches all the way from California’s Owens Valley to the city of Los Angeles - delivering somewhere in the neighborhood... th-cam.com/video/XdhEZZKPqWw/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ExploreAlways ----- Why Los Angeles won't run out of water: The Aqueduct - IT'S HISTORY IT'S HISTORY 883K views th-cam.com/video/jUu2NoK5DHo/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=IT%27SHISTORY ----- I hope you find these as interesting as I did but I've viewed quite a lot more than these covering other YT channels in the Vegas area lamenting Lake Mead's drying up supposedly - primarily - to just drought conditions. What is also interesting is that lakes and rivers in the Middle East are also drying up because of selfish water diversion from other areas via Damming important rivers like the Euphrates and even the drying of sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea is partly man-made mismanagement of vital water sources. Interesting, that some nearly 2000 years ago Jesus' apostle John of Revelation fame foretold the drying up of the River Euphrates also - in Revelation 16:12 - 2000 years in advance approximately. In case you missed the very brief mention of the Colorado river aqueduct in one of the above two vids you can just type in colorado River aqueduct in the YT search engine and you'll come across this archive film promo of that aqueduct [below] as well as some others also🤔🤨🙃 THE STORY OF COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT PROMO 91204 28K views 1 year ago th-cam.com/video/sTXNlHD7Phc/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=PeriscopeFilm
If the country would dig a channel canal to the mediterranian and build a lake in the middle of it; a large weather change would happen to the area and it might become fertile if Orange peels or other compostable material were to be dumped there as a compost to enrch the land it would affect it positively to grow more.
I am quite interested in these "Bunes" and I wonder how they could be applied in other continents that have desertification impacts or just overall urban impacts
That is the most wonderful news i ever heard in all my life amen. I love it. Your going to be rich You will save us people around the world just because you put water on the deserts I love it So wonderful I call it praise the LORD GOD amen Good job.
The Sahara used to be green but fighting destroyed the water-catching areas of the land. It's good that some techniques are being used again. Decent video.
Perhaps the period when larger towns and massive crop production for trade from Nile irrigation killed off the Natural habitat & went to desert. Around the time of Akhenaten? There were vast swaths of Savahnna with all the East African animals.
@@rw4754 You said you "have been feeling a dark panic & despair". It is not "rude" to encourage you to get out more (in my response) , there are many papers written clearly evidencing that a walk in the sunlight does you the power of good.. Reflect.
Lions causing animals to bunch up trampling plants down will also make a mulch that captures more rain for soil. Lions make dessert into grassland, that is their place in ranching. 4x more lions now in Indian as people have returned to lions in this role as part of farming and livestock herding as had been done for 10,000 years or more before British shot almost all of them.
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Interesting, the semicircular dune structures are synonymous with forms seen in riparian debris rafts and in senescent old growth/windfall where trees have rotated up out of the ground and left their rootwad on the (roughly) windward side.
Indeed this is usually an ideal nursery environnent-disturbed soils (the dune/berm structure) to draw in/trigger the pioneer species, and if the forest/Savanna copse is still in decline the location is likely in at least partial shsde. In semi arid environments like the one I am used to, the upwind dune form usually means good water retentention against wind and sun, catchment of topsoil and aeolian seed drift, etc and addition of micro topography and loose soils that young roots love so much. Thank you so much for the education and exposure to the inspiring work that is never spoken of.
Interesting insight, I had not thought of that! I am seeing again and again that the ideas to move forward are not new innovation like what moved the industrial age forward but ideas based on what has always worked in nature. A big value shift going from valuing new ideas to valuing ideas that stood the test of time but I think this is a value that will drive human economy more and more with a biological age replacing the industrial age.
These same tree grow in thar desert of india, they may collect some plants from Rajasthan desert, like khejri, rohda, jaal keer or kumitya etc. Good to grow in sara desert
Very sad the predictions for Portugal and some of Spain to be a desert by 2100. Of course in the north there is alot of water in these countries but if climate keeps changing, and already there are more frequent and earlier heat waves in Spain and Portugal over time the Sahara could expand into these countries this is what scientist predict, let's home both countries use better practices to stop the desert advancing
@@LeafofLifeWorldI hope my beloved reads this reply and takes note to do something with his family and county of adoption to help forestall their incipient problems. 😢 BrainTrust in action, my darling.
Fixing nitrogen. At least they're starting to tell the truth about the climate scam goal. It's not carbon, it's nitrogen. Someone should ask Somerset Bellenof why they want to reduce nitrogen which makes up 3/4 of atmospheric gases.
Alan Savory has been teaching de-desertification for decades. The water tables come back quickly when you plant grass and in combination with ruminant livestock to eat the grass at the right time. Now, that CO2 has risen, the plants don’t need as much water. The locals get the benefit of the meat and cooler climate.
These efforts remind me of the Oscar winning Canadian animated story THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES from the 1980’s. The late Christopher Plummer narrated the story. It was a from a 1953 short story by Jean Giono, that told of one man in France who planted and cultivated area-compatible trees each and every day for about 30 years and literally transformed the arid desert there back into lush thriving forest and farmland. He had only a small percentage survive at first, but over 30 years of his life time he saw his work take hold and take on it’s own life
they need machines to do the work, manually its to much work foe that few peoples. a solarthermic powerplant would be very effective in the intense sun on the sahara, electricity can be gained with that for seawater desalination. trees can be waterd with the desalinated water. it would take like 7 years and the sahara would be all a thick green forest, then some areas in the forest can be used for growing vegetables.
So to help green the deserts and help farmers you want to ruin the environment with solar panels and destroy the ocean in the process. There will be a lot of fisheries devastated by desalination plants. There are never solutions, just trade offs. Solutions don't exist just so you feel better in your heart.
@@danielevans3932: solutions do exist. Desalination recycles water thru the land back to the ocean, laden with nutrients for the sea life. So every thing and every being benefits. Unfounded fears are not the solution
This is so beautiful to see. Imagine if we had 'Google Migrate', a system that could map out the entire earth and help each person or family or tribe, groups, whatever, to find the best places for them to live and stay long term. We have so much space and so few people, I think we could migrate to the best areas instead of working in the most challenging areas. We don't have to stay living where we all just happen to be, I think we could distribute humanity much more efficiently, more effectively over the earth and build from there. The best, safest overall climates, locations, the best water supplies and soil, etc. The way we do most things now is backwards.
Stalin would describe you as a useful idiot. Your little manifesto could have easily come from the Chines Communist Party, you do not see yourself at all.
Yes but man made deserts are not real deserts. And all desert creatures and plants still need water to survive. Humans have the ability to shape the land for the better helping to increase more water and it actually helps deserts alot, it increases the amount of desert vegetation. The deset is vast and these people live on a small section of it, where they farms, people still need to farm, and survive too, just like people who don't live in the desert use land for cultivation, most farms used to forests.
They are sorting it for export which can be used in a variety of ways Usage Food. Gum arabic is used in the food industry as a stabiliser, emulsifier, and thickening agent in icing, fillings, soft candy, chewing gum, and other confectionery, and to bind the sweeteners and flavourings in soft drinks. ... Painting and art. ... Ceramics. ... Photography. ... Printmaking. ... Pyrotechnics. ... Fuel charcoal.
I hope they keep trying to repair the desert. The trees and vegetation consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen and hold water. The success is not guaranteed, but still is a worthwhile effort. It takes 40 trees per person to offset the carbon burden of each and every person. So a family of 4 has to plant and maintain 160 trees of whatever type that will thrive on their patch of earth 🌍
This approach was developed by Swiss farmer and researcher Ernst Götsch, who has been working in Brazil for over 40 years. Gotsch's method, known as syntropic agriculture, is based on the idea of creating a self-sustaining ecosystem that mimics the natural processes of ecological succession.
The Sahara Desert does help the Amazon rainforest, and other forests, tremendously due to its dust flow in and providing it a lot of micronutrients (there's videos that explain it better then me). While this is very interesting me, it is also concerning of how it could effect places like the Amazon Rainforest.
Also plant Shea trees - they fruit in the dry season. And baobabs - bark for sacks/cloth; leaves tasty and nutritious; seeds for oil; and the powder from the seed pods makes a refreshing high vitamin C drink, tasting of citrus.
The Sahara has 3,600,000 sq miles and the U.S. has 3,531,905 sq miles. The difference isn't as big as the pictures make it seem...but...it's still a tremendously huge dessert.
Well, grasses are among the hardiest plants which exist. It should be fairly easy to spread grass seeds all along the edges of the desert zones, and slowly build up soils which bind together rather than just blowing away into sand dunes.
I quite agree, if we all got together and everyone planted five trees or more if possible,fruit trees so theres always something to eat!! An in hot countrys fruit trees will thrive 😊❤❤
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Fascinating video. I'm interested to know if European farming techniques for cash crops precipitated the worsening soil conditions. It's brilliant that a traditional indigenous farming practice is being restored.
Certainly hope the farming methods described will help the people of the region thrive and halt desertification, even if it doesn't turn the whole Sahara green.
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I'm still wondering about the need of firewood in the Sahel. I thought people would be more eager to use cooking-boxes with all the sun. Especially couscous, rice and lentils with vegetables turn out very well in cooking boxes after leaving them in there for some two or three hours. True: glass for the lid and tin-foil for the mirror-walls might be very hard to come by in the Sahel, but even if a cooking-box should be made out of wood: once you have it, it saves up much more wood - and trees - than cooking over fire. Perhaps some wood-saving organisation like the World-Bank should also hand out cooking boxes to the inhabitants, to save all the newly planted trees from the fate of ending up as firewood within a century. 🥺
Wonderful project. The people involved should be extremely proud of themselves!
They lack the knowledge taught through Holistic Management. It has paradigm shifting new knowledge and that is whats needed for dealing with a 10.000 year old problem. All this is just working in the same old paradigm and it wont stop desertification...
I am from Brazil. I love these stories. I think that human beings should join forces to restore as much as possible on this planet.
Nice try Klaus Schwab
no way, no how.... never going to happen, ever....
Odd thing about Brazil. The rain forest depends on the Sahara for nessesary minerals to keep it functional.
The Sahara disappears, so does Brazil. Fun fact.
@@benl6328 but but but climate change
Everything starts with farmers.
True. Even in the Bible everything started with a farmer.
Water wasn't the issue in South Sudan, but the hospital where I worked needed more tree cover. I was there for a year and I must have planted at least 50 trees.
I had a locally employed guy tending the seedlings and saplings until they were ready for planting around the extensive hospital site and expat living area.
Since I left fighting broke out in the area and the hospital was trashed but I hope many of my trees survived!
If petronas was there. More water well drill
The UN AMD WEF must have discovered oil.if fighting broke out.
Everywhere where I live I fill my block with trees.
Hope your trees survived.
Be a good place to send all the illegal ima grants to live an work.
@@bilbobaggins3389 the whole country exist, and broke away, because they found oil. China has a contract with Sudan, so US started a revolt in South Sudan , to make sure China doesn't get the oil.
What an epic accomplishment. I love the use of these almost forgotten techniques too. Now, we need the rest of the world to do projects like these all over the place! Bring it on.
I make these on my little acre in rural NSW, Australia. The remnant bushland that I am custodian of, gets a helping hand - each tree on the hilly bit get its own 'demi lune' (half moon). I knew it was important but this video shows me another reason of exactly just how...
So exciting to hear, Jeremy.
Good effort! The land will benefit from your care
That is fantastic.
I had the privilege of a brief (20 years) learning time on a clay hillside in AotearoaNZL and have an interest in Soil health.
I was able to rest the land and minimize select invading plants while the Native plants used the Gorse that I allowed to grow as protection.
Using nature as a lesson👍
Awesome. I have the privilege of being a steward of 5 acres of woodland and marshlands. Is the past, the normal thing to do would be clear the land and drain the marsh for farming. Instead that, I'm going to use permaculture practices to create a sustainable garden.
@@evilchaperone very exciting. Wishing you well.
Look for Yacouba Sawadogo in Burkina Faso. He modified farming and planted a forest. The water table got elevated by several meters under his land.
Thank you, we actually have a video about him too, its in the description of this video
Another example of success in Proving Nature 🙌
are you serious? incredible.
This is absolutely incredible. I love seeing things like this. We all need to put our heads together and find ways, like this, to help restore our beautiful World. 🙏🙏🙏
Yes, the ingenuity and hard work that went into this deserves to be applauded.
Every home and business building needs to install a rain water collection system and water storage.
With so little rain fall every drop that can be collected is valuable.
Every roof there should have a big plastic cistern to catch water in when it rains.
That would be ideal but that really depends on the setting as you can see ppl in Niger living in natural homes with grass roof, they cannot collect water from this roof, would it be better to replace their homes with a tin roof? It really depends, since grass roof natural building is alot more sustainable that importing other materials. But water harvesting and capture can be done in a variety of ways not just roofs
this is quite shortthinking. When you collect the rain water, it doesn`t drain into the soil and therefore not replenishing the sparsly ground water. It only may serve the collector and his crops for a while, but not the environment at all. And if the ground soil dries out too much, the own crop won't grow anyway anymore. And we got desertification.
Building up a moist ground should be the goal, not egoistically using the rain for the own gain....as, btw these dug out water collectors work, which are shown in the video.
@@michaspringphul Saving roof water won't stop that problem. You think rain only falls in one place? I'd say you were short on brains as well.
@@michaspringphul Until there is plant life to cover and decay there will never be moist soil. That is the point of collecting the water to start. There will be a time once the area is reforested
that it will be unnecessary.
Plants, animals and people will thrive just as they did before desertification.
About time we start doing some more of this in southwest US!
...yer about one century too late ....FDR did that in 1930 in Arizona ...they are still there, by the hundreds .... half moons, for flash floods rainwater capture & collection ... with pick & shovel ...can be seen by satellite ... FDR won the war against the nazis too ...
The Southwest US was under the ocean and those minerals in the soil make it difficult. Even as far east as parts of Kansas have salt deposits. There are fossilized seashells all over the west.
Accept in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Illinois, and Arkansas where they mate it illegal.
You could redirect some of the money currently spent by the federal government on those 754 foreign America military bases around the world delivering “freedom and democracy” to this type of environmental investment. Imagine what one could achieve.
@@khunmikeon858 unfortunately that doesn't make the richest 1% richer. Most Americans have been made to believe the rest of the world would invade, so would object to cuts in weapons spending, even if that reduction funded better education, assisted healthcare, agricultural investment, cheaper food, better pensions.
That is fantastic to see. I thought that the desert would remain just that, a desert.
Its amazing to see some water harvesting and Regenerative techniques can really make the desert bloom, the desert is not just a lifeless barren landscape it can be revived.
@@LeafofLifeWorld It revives itself in a natural 20,000 year cycle. It will regenerate again with no help from us.
@@quietquitter6103
Great Green Wall
moots your point
@@donHooligan I think you might not be quite familiar with the concept of proven scientific fact. I suggest you figure that much out and then do some light research on this subject so that next time you dont make any retarded comments. God bless.
@@quietquitter6103 hahaha
that's called projection, sonny.
you have *NO IDEA* what is about to happen, little boy.
what I really like about this channel is the positivity and the local solutions you folks document being employed to solve global problems
No matter what anyone does it will not stop the planet from aging just as we have not found the Fountain of Youth. Everything gets OLD.
@@getin3949 you are a bit of a downer..
This kinda explains why trees die in the subburbs. When people rake up the leaves, the trees dont get the natural food that makes them flourish year after year.
I've been following this a little bit when it was in the planning stages. I'm glad to hear it is working. I know they lost a lot of trees too start with, but that happens everywhere sometimes. Sounds like there are bouncing back and honing in on methods that work. Thanks for the info.
You mean "cut down a lot of trees". But otherwise, yes!
@@dashroodle9507 ikmlh
Oh man, I love this. Massive props to everybody involved 👏
That region is proven to swing between desert and rainforest every 20,000 years.
If that is true, which I suspect it is, why does the description of the video say that climate change is a human driven event caused by fossil fuel use? Climate has been cyclical since the beginning of time.
@@donaldvandenberg4429 Because there is a rather nasty agenda to have people believe that's what it is. It serves the purpose of dark, dark things.
Now we manage our places and see is we can balance the swing.
@@cherylreid2964 We can't fight such massive changes. We can only learn to live with them.
Exactly and I remember the last one. Boy did it suck. 🤦🏻♂️
I moved into a heavily wooded neighborhood about 30 years ago. Over the years people have moved into the neighborhood, cut all of their trees down, and replaced the natural wooded lots with grass lawns. Over the same time period I added many additional trees, shrubs and bushes. The people who cut their trees down now have to run their air conditioners from February to October. Without air conditioners constantly running 24 hours a day,, their houses are unlivable. Their electric bills have increased to around $400.00 dollars a month. After reforesting our property the house is completely surrounded with trees, bushes shrubs and no longer requires an air conditioner to maintain a comfortable temperature. My electric bill has gone down to $89.00 a month. The yard is completely self sustaining and does not require mowing, watering, fertilizer, weed control, or any other expenses associated with having a lawn.
Historically the people that lived in these areas used the land correctly. They then in the 1920's and on tried to use western style flat land farming and killed off the land. It shouldnt have taken decades of research to fix the problem. Simply listening to the elders would have fixed the problem
You gotta plant Kiowa trees. They bring water up from extremely deep in the ground. Wherever you see a natural oasis, you will find Kiowa trees.
Yes, it is amazing how this simple technique is turning desert land into land with vegetation, that lasts. So grateful for this!
If things like this can be done at little cost surely projects like these should become world wide to offset global warming - much better than arguing about who causes the most pollution - how about who can do more to offset it ? This is a really interesting channel that I have just come across and is extremely interesting - thank-you!
I don't know can you fight the ice age ending?
@@michaelfriscia8166 ice age ending?
@@RealTechnophoria yeah everybody claims that climate change is somehow not a normal event or that mankind has some huge effect on it but that's total BS the fact of the matter is the planet has been warming steadily for the last 12,000 years or you and I would be under 2 miles of ice. It has way more to do with the sun and volcanic activity then mankind. The fact of the matter is all the human beings in history with all the carbon they've produced has only accounted for 0.004% of CO2 because don't forget man does not manufacture matter from nothing it was there long before you and I were around point being the rest is due to volcanoes rotting plant material and the millions and millions of animals and insects that inhale oxygen and breathe it out everyday that have been steadily growing in number since the end of the last ice age. The more CO2 there is the bigger plants grow the bigger plants get and the more of them there are the more oxygen is produced nature balances itself out and we are part of nature despite our claims that we are somehow in charge of it or not within its control. Climate change is just a way to restructure government power to try to redistribute wealth and power from those who provide value to those who do not using those who are too foolish to understand science and think on a short-term human lifetime basis and the fact of the matter is nothing me or you does is going to stop a volcano from erupting and pouring trillions of tons of CO2 and other gases into the atmosphere whether or not my car passes smog whether or not fossil fuels are burned. What will be affected is whether or not I can get to work and provide value to my employer and his customers what will be affected is whether or not people in the third world can develop their Nations and have clean water and medicine electricity roads and all that good stuff that we take for granted. So yeah of course the climate is changing at what point in history has the climate not been changing? And yes species are going extinct at what point in history has species not gone extinct? And that's without even getting into things like what if an asteroid hit the planet or what if fill in the blank that periodically causes mass extinctions anyways don't we want to be prepared for that isn't part of being prepared for that having as much knowledge and technology as we can get while conditions to do so are permissible I.e before the next ice age which is coming by the way.
The governments aren't bothered about anything really, its just a smoke screen to tax us and blame it on climate change, and that is the reason they won't do anything or they won't be able screw us over will they.
@@RealTechnophoria Correct, we are moving out of a mini ice age and we cannot stop the natural warming of the earth. Our governments know this are using this opportunity to increase fuel to fill their pockets and blame climate crisis, they are having the peoples pants down.
What a positive message……well done the people of Niger.!!!!
No it's nidgjer
NIGER
That's brilliant and a win win for that area of Africa, good luck to them.
Deeply inspiring
This is awesome!!! FLORIDA 🇺🇸 USA
Hearing about these greening efforts is a great thing - good news is rare these days. Keep up the good work.
Really relieving amazing facts about "Sahara" !!!
I'm so proud of these hard working people to take the initiative in reclaiming their lands and creating a sustainable environment. We should have been doing this for 50 years to sustain the planets ecosystems. Instead, we squeezed every last drop of profit out of it with no regards to future generations. I'm happy we are waking up as a species. Hey, it's cool what SpaceX is doing and all, but this is our current home and the only home that we know of that is suitable for our species.
This channel is amazing
Real PEOPLE ,,,real LIFE....a fantastic project. 👍👌💯✔️😃
Wow that is fantastic, that's the best news in a long time,
that could be applied here in Australia, as we are a dry content too.
Good for them, and bless them, they have done it hard for a long time.
I enjoyed that. Thanks. Subscribed.
it drives me crazy in cities they keep throwing tree leaves away like garbage and cutting grass - they plant only one species of trees causing alergies for the local population - people need education about basic biology and ecology everywhere
Couldn't agree more, I mentioned alot of these issues in a recent urban planning video comparing Mexico and Europe
Isra'el should do this! Everyone should do this! Wow!
That's a big Thumbs up...💯%👍🏾
Prevent over grazing of land by livestock
If United States is keen on reducing the destructive hurricanes on its eastern coast eg Florida, South and North Carolina, it must strongly support and fund greening of Sahara desert. This is where the storms begin to form and gain speed and momentum while travelling over the Atlantic ocean. But then, it may reduce the supply of nutrients to the Amazon Forests too.
I just love your videos, thank you for your efforts. The way the natural,world functions is so complex and it is so inspiring to see humans working with it.
I seriously hope it works for them and it catches on, rather being sold some damaging and expensive industrial techniques.
They also have excellent back strength and fitness!
Vegas would be a good start
@@Proton-KBHi, Interesting you should say that as I've been keeping tabs on the Lake mead drying up due to the drought situation that's had a couple of reprieves from rainfall and floods - but is still relentlessly drying up and losing water from time to time that has been alarming residents in the area to make videos on lake Mead.
Are you aware that part of the problem with lake Mead drying up besides the drought can be traced back to two aqueducts that were created and built very early to mid last century by greedy and somewhat vested interests of one man who had power to influence a better outcome than what is seemingly now occurring in the Vegas area that could affect millions of residents in neighbouring counties and cities relying on the Hoover Dam for power supplies?
One might ask why an Aussie from Victorian Australia even takes any interest in the affairs of American history and past relatively recent History at that?
These video links are from my 'watched' history on YT - even though I've gotta scroll back quite a ways to find them again for you showing a man-made disaster in the making by diverting water from two American rivers just to supply water from the Colorado and Owens rivers to feed Los Angeles' growing demands for water last century at the cost of Neighbouring cities in the Vegas region being short changed from their water supplies and potentially hazarding the continued running of the Hoover Dam Hydro plant and water wars over water rights were even fought apparently:
How Los Angeles Gets Its Water: A Complete History of The Los Angeles Aqueduct
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Completed on November 5, 1913, the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct stretches all the way from California’s Owens Valley to the city of Los Angeles - delivering somewhere in the neighborhood...
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Why Los Angeles won't run out of water: The Aqueduct - IT'S HISTORY
IT'S HISTORY
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I hope you find these as interesting as I did but I've viewed quite a lot more than these covering other YT channels in the Vegas area lamenting Lake Mead's drying up supposedly - primarily - to just drought conditions. What is also interesting is that lakes and rivers in the Middle East are also drying up because of selfish water diversion from other areas via Damming important rivers like the Euphrates and even the drying of sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea is partly man-made mismanagement of vital water sources. Interesting, that some nearly 2000 years ago Jesus' apostle John of Revelation fame foretold the drying up of the River Euphrates also - in Revelation 16:12 - 2000 years in advance approximately.
In case you missed the very brief mention of the Colorado river aqueduct in one of the above two vids you can just type in colorado River aqueduct in the YT search engine and you'll come across this archive film promo of that aqueduct [below] as well as some others also🤔🤨🙃
THE STORY OF COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT PROMO 91204
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1 year ago
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If the country would dig a channel canal to the mediterranian and build a lake in the middle of it; a large weather change would happen to the area and it might become fertile if Orange peels or other compostable material were to be dumped there as a compost to enrch the land it would affect it positively to grow more.
I am quite interested in these "Bunes" and I wonder how they could be applied in other continents that have desertification impacts or just overall urban impacts
Great initiative.. All the best..
Higher CO2 levels are partially responsible for the greening by reducing plants water requirements.
That is the most wonderful news i ever heard in all my life amen.
I love it.
Your going to be rich
You will save us people around the world just because you put water on the deserts
I love it
So wonderful
I call it praise the LORD GOD amen
Good job.
fantastic!
I was waiting for this news for decades! Finally it's happening! Hallelujah! God bless everyone!
The Sahara used to be green but fighting destroyed the water-catching areas of the land. It's good that some techniques are being used again.
Decent video.
Perhaps the period when larger towns and massive crop production for trade from Nile irrigation killed off the Natural habitat & went to desert.
Around the time of Akhenaten?
There were vast swaths of Savahnna with all the East African animals.
What a great thing to know about people helping people. Let there be life .
I will say, a monocrop to re-forest isn't ideal, but the demi-lunes do sounds like a good idea.
they would just be the first anchor species and they're native to the region. So that shouldn't be a problem.
They were also planting different crops as shown in video and allowing native vegetation to sprout and mature
Love your channel. So uplifting and hopeful. I have been feeling a dark panic & despair. Thank-you.
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Deary me, you should get out more.
@@gtaylor178 why do you have to be rude to people you never met & know NOTHING about?
@@rw4754 You said you "have been feeling a dark panic & despair".
It is not "rude" to encourage you to get out more (in my response) , there are many papers written clearly evidencing that a walk in the sunlight does you the power of good..
Reflect.
@@gtaylor178 😀Came off like"Get a life!" 🤣 I shall reinterpret your comment as coming from a place of kindness not trolling. 🥰
This is incredible that the desert can be transformed into fertile land using ancient techniques
Lions causing animals to bunch up trampling plants down will also make a mulch that captures more rain for soil. Lions make dessert into grassland, that is their place in ranching. 4x more lions now in Indian as people have returned to lions in this role as part of farming and livestock herding as had been done for 10,000 years or more before British shot almost all of them.
I admire these people they do something and don't just go on a boat to escape!
If desert begins to go green then the weather around the world will change too.
For the better though
Wonderful, thanks for the video
I like 👍 this kind of positiv stories 😀.
Amazing!
Amazing.
This is beautiful - Why aren't we watching more positive posts like this? - It's a truly beautiful world of peoples of all shapes, sizes, colors and demographics, come together to make a world full of love. - Respect your heritage and respect and learn about others. - Many blessings - Aesir -
that probly the best vid ive seen in restoring the planet to a green and healthy planet again even if its 1 country at a time
Interesting, the semicircular dune structures are synonymous with forms seen in riparian debris rafts and in senescent old growth/windfall where trees have rotated up out of the ground and left their rootwad on the (roughly) windward side.
Indeed this is usually an ideal nursery environnent-disturbed soils (the dune/berm structure) to draw in/trigger the pioneer species, and if the forest/Savanna copse is still in decline the location is likely in at least partial shsde. In semi arid environments like the one I am used to, the upwind dune form usually means good water retentention against wind and sun, catchment of topsoil and aeolian seed drift, etc and addition of micro topography and loose soils that young roots love so much. Thank you so much for the education and exposure to the inspiring work that is never spoken of.
You just have to keep folks from overweeding the basins and removing valuable shade and SOM
All of that and you didn't mention this region regenerates itself in a natural cycle.
Interesting insight, I had not thought of that!
I am seeing again and again that the ideas to move forward are not new innovation like what moved the industrial age forward but ideas based on what has always worked in nature. A big value shift going from valuing new ideas to valuing ideas that stood the test of time but I think this is a value that will drive human economy more and more with a biological age replacing the industrial age.
@@quietquitter6103 goes without saying.
Thank you ! You are giving us hope !!
These same tree grow in thar desert of india, they may collect some plants from Rajasthan desert, like khejri, rohda, jaal keer or kumitya etc. Good to grow in sara desert
The Sahara Desert will serve Africa well when there is trees and vegetation to reduce this Desert by half in the decades ahead.
Portugal tem que estudar esta situação no Níger para evitar a desertificação que poderá já estar a acontecer nas zonas do sul de Portugal
Very sad the predictions for Portugal and some of Spain to be a desert by 2100. Of course in the north there is alot of water in these countries but if climate keeps changing, and already there are more frequent and earlier heat waves in Spain and Portugal over time the Sahara could expand into these countries this is what scientist predict, let's home both countries use better practices to stop the desert advancing
É aplicar este conhecimento no alentejo e em todo o lado... pelos vistos conhecer o padrao de humidade para aplicar esses semicirculos
Concordou!
@@LeafofLifeWorldI hope my beloved reads this reply and takes note to do something with his family and county of adoption to help forestall their incipient problems. 😢 BrainTrust in action, my darling.
Fixing nitrogen. At least they're starting to tell the truth about the climate scam goal. It's not carbon, it's nitrogen. Someone should ask Somerset Bellenof why they want to reduce nitrogen which makes up 3/4 of atmospheric gases.
You can plant trees down hill from the low spot as they will get water from soil wet by the low spot. Then crop can grow in low spot too.
Alan Savory has been teaching de-desertification for decades. The water tables come back quickly when you plant grass and in combination with ruminant livestock to eat the grass at the right time. Now, that CO2 has risen, the plants don’t need as much water. The locals get the benefit of the meat and cooler climate.
These efforts remind me of the Oscar winning Canadian animated story THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES from the 1980’s. The late Christopher Plummer narrated the story.
It was a from a 1953 short story by Jean Giono, that told of one man in France who planted and cultivated area-compatible trees each and every day for about 30 years and literally transformed the arid desert there back into lush thriving forest and farmland.
He had only a small percentage survive at first, but over 30 years of his life time he saw his work take hold and take on it’s own life
This makes me so happy. Shockingly, a practical existing solution is the best solution.
Does the regreening encourage it to rain?
yes it does.
@@mariadowler1279 what's your experience Maria..🙂
Super cool ... didn't know anything about this stuff I'm glad I stopped by and learned something today Thanks
Inspiring the universe
This is so awesome😮
they need machines to do the work, manually its to much work foe that few peoples. a solarthermic powerplant would be very effective in the intense sun on the sahara, electricity can be gained with that for seawater desalination. trees can be waterd with the desalinated water. it would take like 7 years and the sahara would be all a thick green forest, then some areas in the forest can be used for growing vegetables.
So to help green the deserts and help farmers you want to ruin the environment with solar panels and destroy the ocean in the process. There will be a lot of fisheries devastated by desalination plants. There are never solutions, just trade offs. Solutions don't exist just so you feel better in your heart.
@@danielevans3932: none of that destruction will happen. Your fears are over wrought. The nonstop fossil fuel consumption is way worse.
@@danielevans3932: solutions do exist. Desalination recycles water thru the land back to the ocean, laden with nutrients for the sea life. So every thing and every being benefits. Unfounded fears are not the solution
As long has the human race continues to grow the problem of global warming will not go away
nice
If the population of the world continues to grow,more farmland is a must.
This is so beautiful to see. Imagine if we had 'Google Migrate', a system that could map out the entire earth and help each person or family or tribe, groups, whatever, to find the best places for them to live and stay long term. We have so much space and so few people, I think we could migrate to the best areas instead of working in the most challenging areas. We don't have to stay living where we all just happen to be, I think we could distribute humanity much more efficiently, more effectively over the earth and build from there. The best, safest overall climates, locations, the best water supplies and soil, etc. The way we do most things now is backwards.
Great idea but must be constructively managed with the set-up in advance, so we humans don't continue to trash our spaces.
Stalin would describe you as a useful idiot. Your little manifesto could have easily come from the Chines Communist Party, you do not see yourself at all.
Deserts are also important in nature .... pls understand that🙏
Yes but man made deserts are not real deserts. And all desert creatures and plants still need water to survive. Humans have the ability to shape the land for the better helping to increase more water and it actually helps deserts alot, it increases the amount of desert vegetation. The deset is vast and these people live on a small section of it, where they farms, people still need to farm, and survive too, just like people who don't live in the desert use land for cultivation, most farms used to forests.
what does she do with the plate of gum arabic ? they use that in chewing gum..
They are sorting it for export which can be used in a variety of ways
Usage
Food. Gum arabic is used in the food industry as a stabiliser, emulsifier, and thickening agent in icing, fillings, soft candy, chewing gum, and other confectionery, and to bind the sweeteners and flavourings in soft drinks. ...
Painting and art. ...
Ceramics. ...
Photography. ...
Printmaking. ...
Pyrotechnics. ...
Fuel charcoal.
Finally Saharians are doing something good. Thank GOD.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge..........at its best!
I hope they keep trying to repair the desert. The trees and vegetation consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen and hold water. The success is not guaranteed, but still is a worthwhile effort.
It takes 40 trees per person to offset the carbon burden of each and every person. So a family of 4 has to plant and maintain 160 trees of whatever type that will thrive on their patch of earth 🌍
This approach was developed by Swiss farmer and researcher Ernst Götsch, who has been working in Brazil for over 40 years. Gotsch's method, known as syntropic agriculture, is based on the idea of creating a self-sustaining ecosystem that mimics the natural processes of ecological succession.
The Sahara Desert does help the Amazon rainforest, and other forests, tremendously due to its dust flow in and providing it a lot of micronutrients (there's videos that explain it better then me). While this is very interesting me, it is also concerning of how it could effect places like the Amazon Rainforest.
You right but those people who live there need to survive
@@victorlebon4502 yes. That true.
Yes. But the sahara should not grow bigger, since the amazon become smaller
Awesome vid! Our deserts are thirsty! I liked & subed!
Amazing and thanks
Really amazing story; a tribute to human endeavour.
👍👍🏼🌳🌱❤️
Surprised at the content,in spite of the click bait thumbnail!!!😮 Rather well done 👍🌹....
ISAIAH 43::19 The LORD Said Behold I Will Make All Things New. I Will Make A Way In The Wilderness. And I Will Send Rivers Of Water In The DRY Land.
Sam Kinison, “don’t live in the DESERT, Ohhhh, Ohhhh, Ohhhhhhhh!
There are also Zei Pits, which Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer from Burkina Faso popularized as an ancient farming technique to reverse desertification.
Also plant Shea trees - they fruit in the dry season. And baobabs - bark for sacks/cloth; leaves tasty and nutritious; seeds for oil; and the powder from the seed pods makes a refreshing high vitamin C drink, tasting of citrus.
Anything a person works for to their betterment might last. Anything given without work is doomed to failure 😊
Trees and plants are important... who could have guessed...
The Sahara has 3,600,000 sq miles and the U.S. has 3,531,905 sq miles. The difference isn't as big as the pictures make it seem...but...it's still a tremendously huge dessert.
Well, grasses are among the hardiest plants which exist. It should be fairly easy to spread grass seeds all along the edges of the desert zones, and slowly build up soils which bind together rather than just blowing away into sand dunes.
I quite agree, if we all got together and everyone planted five trees or more if possible,fruit trees so theres always something to eat!! An in hot countrys fruit trees will thrive 😊❤❤
If you dig a hole, water will go in it then it rains. Scientific breakthrough. 🎉
*4000 years ago this area was a green jungle*