How Australia is Regreening its Deserts Back into a Green Oasis
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- Australia is the driest inhabited continent on planet earth, and is home to The Great Australian Desert which is the the 4th largest desert in the world after The Antarctic, The Arctic and The Sahara.
Australia is comparable in size to The United States however its population is significantly less than America’s, the whole of Australia has about the same number of people living in it as the state of Texas. Despite the low population Australia is one of the worst developed countries in the world for broadscale deforestation, wiping out endangered forests and woodlands. In fact, they have cleared nearly half of all forest cover in the last 200 years!
It began in around the early 1800s when the British colonized Australia in search of land and fortunes. At that time Britain had already been completely stripped of trees for centuries by intensive agriculture and war, even today The United Kingdom has one of the lowest percentages of forest cover in Europe. British timber companies were granted free access to vast areas of virgin forest in Australia and trees were felled for agriculture and railway tracks which were constructed alongside other transit infrastructure such as roads, bridges and jetties.
By the 1880s concerns about stripping the forests were being raised but no steps towards conservation were taken and now Australia has become the worst offending country in the world for mammal extinctions, 55 wildlife species plus 37 plant species have gone extinct. The wide spread deforestation has resulted in 55% of all Australian land area being used for agricultural purposes and around 72% of all agricultural output is exported. Meat and live animals has been the fastest-growing export segment, growing 33% in value, However agriculture only accounts for 1.9% of value added (GDP) and 2.5% of employment in 2020-21.
The wide spread land degradation has resulted in man made desertification after centuries of tiling, and the introduction of non native grazing grasses has taken its toll on the landscape. However some regions in Australia are starting to turn this around, transforming large areas of degraded land back into bio-diverse ecosystems, by restoring millions of trees and in turn improving the lives for rural farming communities, as well as capturing over a million tons of carbon to benefit the planet as a whole. This can be considered a major accomplishment for any country, particularly one that has a low average rainfall of 16 inches per year. In this video we will show you how a 200km long green corridor will connect 12 nature reserves across a 10,000 km².
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Good on them I'm in Tasmania Australia on a 53 Acer old farm on the Mersey River I've already planted over 2000 trees and shrubs for the native animals and birds trying to grow back the forest 🙂
Nice work 👏 🌳
why dont you plant trees and create nursery for plants that require less water like jujube , ber or indian jujube
@@vijayajitkumar1 I am using Australian native plants which does not need much water and I would love to start a nursery to grow the plant's I need but I've got a full time job so I can pay for the farm and plants
@@thelamegoat8035 so nice of you
do you eat them or shop at coles
I’m Australian- I’m very skeptical of this information. Government grants are handed out from time to time but Australia is still clearing land and it has not been reversed
It's illegal to clear land in this area now. There are big fines, though in the older Eastern areas the damage was done so long ago it can only be replanted as there is little land left to clear..
Is there any attempt @ follow-up after these grants are handed out❓
@@gcb4763 Yes big fines, but even bigger money to be made on that land after its been cleared (e.g. growing soy). Fines aren't always a deterrent unfortunately.
Spot On! The video is actually all BS we are clearing land in the bush because we need farms to feed us because the govt's clear the farmland and bush near the cites to build houses to house the immigrants. Just check out north west Sydney no more Dairies or market gardens or iron bark forests just brick veneer & concrete prisons that smell like curry. They also remove all the dams and billabongs from the land, that and all the concrete when it rains nothing gets soaked up just floods the Hawkesbury!
@@bacilluscereus1299 I doubt it. Likely a bunch of hippies getting government money and not doing much.
For whatever reason I thought Australia was really proud of their wildlife and landscapes, had no idea they were destroying it at such a fast rate.
Aussies are proud and we love our wildlife but due to rampant corruption the people don’t get a say on what happens to our ecosystems
@@dantemadden1533 yeah fair point I should of known better, same with governments everywhere ☹️
dont believe all thats quoted here the forestry has signifcant govt intereference and is mismanaged by govt the timber people dont wish to destroy their input trees there is some stupid quote here about saving old growth forest thats the trees you do use the timber is renewable if managed yet uni educated clueless people create bs policy which gets adopted by clueless govt people who think its a good idea .
Dont know where your from but we dont destroy our farmland
Why do cities build on farmland ? why not reclaim ocean areas ?
"they" as is us Australians are not destroying anything ! This video is complete bollocks! The map at 1:10 is bullsite there is the great dividing range running north south it is not degraded. the Koalas are not dying out they have survived bush fires b4! Most of the damage is cause by leftard greentard reetard government and politicians who lock up the national parks, dont, do any burn offs in winter or manage the parks in any effective way then a drought or summer hits and they caught fire sometimes purposely lit by activist want to push an agenda or general idiots!
@J G
we're not. take this video with a grain of salt, there are thousands of projects going on all over the country, many for decades. Most of Australia has always been a desert and this video is highly misleading.
Sickening how much Australia, in particular NSW and QLD, clears land for no reason whatsoever.
Said as someone who lives in QLD and sees it rampant every day.
do you own the farmland and have someone else tell you what you should be doing with it how do you make a living ? If we came to your place of employment and told you what you cant do because we think ! you should not be doing something .. No one mentions all the housing built on farmland and is most of the time the best farmland too
@@tomnapier681 most of the land is being cleared FOR housing and I hate it! I agree, very productive land is going to housing, meaning more needs to be cleared for farming and it's FUCKED.
That ever increasing rate of profit.
@@tomnapier681 Your example is incomparable; there is no reason to tell a doctor or engineer or labourer to change their employment; they're not harming anybody. The fact is farmers are continuing to clear-fell forests and scrub (and thus destroying the environment) despite them knowing full well that they are helping to exacerbate climate change that threatens the life and livelihood of all of us. They *knowingly* do this, and clearly only care about making a profit. They *knowingly* increase the extinction rate of our native animals and plants. The scientific evidence is clear and has been for over forty years, yet they continue to clear-fell forests and scrub. Three cheers to those knowledgeable farmers who are now revegetating their lands.
@@DragonsOfAra interesting comments so farmers clear fell forest so does the government where exactly are the farmers clear felling forest ?
Climate actually changes 4 times a year its commonly know as seasons
Farmers all try to make a profit most of us dont we get up each day do our work and hope the expenses dont exceed the sales price .
Not sure how clearing effects you and threatens life by the looks of things you live in a city most likely have a goverment job .
All the cities that built on forest and open farm land displaced various wildlife do you plan to tear down the cities and revert it back to how it was .
Why do cities build on good farm land you rarely see housing development on rough land .
How do you propose farmers who own the land make productive use of it to supply the food for you whats your plan
Having black cockatoos come to your back yard is such a blessing they are stunning birds. I love this country and I hope with our new government we can continue making strides in the right direction between utilisation and conservation. It is an indescribably beautiful country with so many different landscapes and people well worth a visit
When I was in Australia studying seeing Galahs a lot on uni grounds and even a possum at night was rather inspirational to have such great wildlife in a city area. Also uniques species like lorikeets and cockatoos.
@@hunterhq295 we have so much beautiful flora and fauna that needs more protection. I really do hope we pull our finger out and protect our one of a kind nature. We've lost a lot but there's still much more to lose. It's a wonderful place with a unique history, when push comes to shove Aussie's tend to do the right thing so I have hope
So true. I've got really into planting wattles. Gallas and parrots love eating the seeds. Pretty cool watching them check weather seeds are ready to eat. Feels great to feed them.
@@jamieheald8732 So true. Under no circumstances should we build more dams or other infrastructure that takes away from mother nature. Vote for the Greens everyone. Oh sorry, I forgot all those solar panels and windmills that the government is building at break neck speed. We have to get rid of those ones too.
Agreed. We have destroyed much of the landscape. I hope one day enough people will behind expanding our landscape so more of it is habitable, and not as much desert. Most of us only care about our next pay cheque.
This is interesting for me to see as I grew up in the Coorow/Carnamah area not too far from Yarra Yarra salt lake. My father was a farmer, as were his two brothers and my brother. My father kept rainfall records from the 1920s. His records and those of the BOM suggest that rainfall averages have declined 10% to 20% since the 1960s, however there has been a Green revolution with wheat growing that has enabled crops to withstand drier conditions. BOM scientists say that rainfall will continue to decline about another 15% by the end of the century. It's apparently something to do with Indian ocean temperatures. My father's generation of farmer cut most of the vegetation away, not realising the water table was salty. His first house was moved as it was on what became a salty barren area with seasonal flood plain. Later in life he liked to propagate native plants and plant them along roadsides. By then the damage had been done and I suspect the policy of land development by the West Australian government during the 1960s may have added to the decline in rainfall. In areas west of Yarra Yarra, where the soil is sandy would have different and quite interesting vegetation.
Trees attract and even generate rainfall. Remove them enmasse and that could be an additional factor to lower rainfall.
Geoengineering
Wow... there's more information in your few lines than in that whole 6mins vid...
This might be happening in one small patch of Australia. Everywhere else the rampant clearing of trees has increased 300% in the past few years. The 'greenwashing' policies where people are paid not to cut down trees is a rort. This country is NOT improving. It is getting worse daily. Nice try. I live here. We are decimating this country. Down to less than 1% of biodiversity that was here when we arrived in 1778.
Yeap. You are 100% accurate. I'm not sure when they got that data but australia is one of the most destructive country in terms of native forest clearing and agriculture is main driver for that.
Check how much they are exporting to China and Asia and at the same time population is exploding (yeap those new people wants to eat as well and leave on big parcel of land an so on and on)
I hear you get a average of 92900 a year and have swimming pools yet you decadent lot still whinging while lounging on the beach all day...
@Y0gi.Pl_ltIn she's blubbering about the truth mate! This 'greening' is just the bs propaganda theyre using as a carbon and logging offset to make it look good on paper. A lot of countries are doing exactly the same thing. It's all a big 'pull the wool over your eyes' farce, as usual
Ever heard of Hindmarsh Landcare Network?
Obviously you live with no contact to the actual environment, but then most self-proclaimed “environmentalists” live in darkest suburbia and expiate their guilt by projecting their urban-jungle experience on those of us who actually live in the environment.
First truth... the majority of the Australian native forest is protected and cannot be logged or otherwise cleared.
Second truth... the majority of the Australian landscape is still covered in native vegetation of various kinds.
ThIrd truth... most of the “clearing” the environmentalists wail about is either through burning - a natural part of the Australian biology - or the removal of post-settlement super-dense regeneration of native species occupying what were originally grasslands and grassy-woodlands.
A step in the right direction of restoring our planet. Big respect to all those taking part & supporting.
Been seeing a lot of innovation in regenerative ag. They could turn it up a notch with restorative ag techniques. If they use natives, or native-based food biomes that also produce food and livestock feed, they've got a winner.
That's it. You could make such a powerful win-win by adding some edible species. Especially on such a wide area, the project could finance itself while also providing food/diminishing the need for these destructive agricultural methods bit by bit.
@@Pas_cal
Check out Mark Shepard's approach. They could still keep the narrow corridors of natives but also use the adapted native guilds increasing the overall benefits.
Forgot to mention that using this technique increases food diversity and nutrition for plants, soil biota, people and livestock.
@@b_uppy nice that you say it. I just finished reading his book a few weeks ago, it's super interesting.
Though I do have my questions with the cattle part. That combination (and even more in this context) with farm animals would still need quite intensive management though. Letting go of that could create a good and useful alternative. Then also the wildlife will be able to find it's place again, and the whole system will balance out with some denser forests over time (and then it's up to decide whether you want to make it all edible or just see what grows). SHUN proof haha
@Pascal /
That it's intensive is okay. This would bring food management back to a more localized level, with all it's efficiencies. The added benefits are decentralization of food, wealth, grid dependency, other resources. Local communities could survive with the food Mark grows, while still being very desirable products on international markets as well.
Actually cattle are important to the management. The cattle provide control of certain insect infestations that plague apples for one because of the natural pruning they provide (it's in one of his videos). Their feet also push deeper into the soil making divots that trap water, humus, and seeds. This helps the system to regenerate.
Btw the meats, dairy and eggs from livestock grazed/finished on diverse (weedy) pasture are higher in beneficial polyphenols, omega 3s, and fat profiles (ie much closer to olive oil than that finished on grain).
Btw researchers are working on developing perennial wheat, hopefully that is developed quickly. That would be a boon. The wheat straw could then be used to create strawbale homes as well...
I don't know why they are planting in straight lines... that doesn't look natural at all?
Sorry, I live in Australia and I can confirm we do an appalling job with our forests. If it can be chopped down or dug up we're in there with shovels and chainsaws.
We get floods on the coast and droughts inland and we haven't got the balls to get that water collected and moved inland.
I love it here, but we suck up to the mining industry hard.
We do, it just gets often stolen by the NSW cotton industry
Would the cost of implementing the infrastructure to move seasonal floodwater be less than the gain from reducing drought inland and the cost of flood damage? Someone has to pay for projects like this and this would be a very expensive one and only used at certain times of the year.
@@damionkeeling3103 The reality is that a well built infrastructure project would be expensive, no doubt, but considering the effects of fires and droughts it has to be worth the investment.
The dividing range can be green on one side and dust on the other.
When you also factor in the damage created on the coast by flood water you could also lessen the effect of flood by clearing water to areas inland that are drought effected.
I believe the issue is that it's a project which successive political parties would have to oversee and there lies the problem.
This would have already been done in China.
@@superdonyoungy7743 It seems obvious but hasn't been done so I'm assuming there are major hurdles. Desalinisation would seem to be a good solution and then pump that freshwater inland.
@@damionkeeling3103 The reason is it would require cutting or drilling through the great dividing range, large dams and a great deal of investment
Australia is on the right track but is in its infancy I feel but they have some of the top minds on permaculture so let’s hope they push in the right direction and the USA and the rest of the world will get on the same train
Permaculture still has a human foot print. It isn't a replacement to natural rehabilitation.
The USA is in REALLY BAD SHAPE right at the moment. Environmentalism has KILLED millions of high paying jobs. Millions have already left the workforce and are becoming homeless. We are about finished as a country, all thanks to the Left.
The usa has more trees than it did 100 years ago and growing.
Bill Mollison.
This video is propaganda. Illegal deforestation is rampant in the biggest forests in Australia, especially NSW, and followed by extremely irresponsible pesticide use it’s turning the most ancient forests into deserts. Don’t be fooled.
Before I critise I want ya all to know I've planted 7000 trees in my local area. What frustrated me is these straight lines of reveg that makes it look like farming somekind of fruit. It's not hard to just make it wavey or something
Or plant in clusters
Yep. Trees don't do as well in rows. Plus it looks shitty
It must be for ease of management I'm sure they have to water those trees so maybe easier to irrigate this way while it's all developing. I'm only guessing though!
Looks like a plantation. They’ll be harvesting them in 20 or 30 years
I'm not sure about the ones in this vid but the projects I've worked on follow land topography contours as a way of maximising rain water capture and minimising water run-off and erosion. It might not look natural but it maximises the trees chances of survival, and allows vehicle access for fire fighting when needed. unfortunately its necessary part of undoing the damage humans have done.
controversial opinion, but I personally think we should do away with the blocking of non-native plant species. people say they're invasive, but at this point if it grows here, we should plant it. we need to rehabilitate damaged soils as fast as possible and if that means allowing "invasive" non-native "weeds", so be it.
If only people were so keen on planting trees, as they're on trotting a treadmill, then the forest cover would be 80% everywhere. The system is wrong and people think inside boxes. Thank you for doing great work and inspiring us to be less insane in what we're doing with this planet
Hey! Thank you so much for your videos. I found your channel a couple months ago and it has really inspired me. I just got a job in forestry and hope to make a positive change in the environment. Keep educating the dreamers!
Thats incredible! Congratulations 👏 thank you for your support 🙏 for our channel and for the planet 💚🌳
keep rocking..👍
Hello🖐katie, how are you doing?
if you have a job in forestry how about you start doing burnoffs in winter so we dont have horrific fires in summer!
I live in Sao Paulo - Brazil, this idea is wonderful, and now I'm looking for some places to plant some trees! inspiring!
please keep us informed, you can contact us via email leafoflifefilms@gmail.com we love to document projects from all over the world, so make sure you take some pictures or video before you start planting and then during the process aswell
I think that what we’ve learned from these projects is that biodiversity is absolutely critical as well as the use of native trees and shrubs… along with swells to help with the capture of ground water.
This video is so pleasing. Trees are the lungs of the Earth. They take in CO2 and give off O2...Life...I have replaced native trees on my land after I had to remove many because of disease and parasitic plants. I love trees and live next to a wildlife/water area. Many species of waterfowl, birds, and 4 legged critters. My little piece of heaven. Also, I do not use chemicals or pesticides on my land.
I had no idea this was happening and I live in western australia. Thanks for the video
World is much more green today than it was 50 years ago. This helps it become even more green for animals to thrive.
God bless you guys, keep up the great work
The most effective restoration would be to change mowing/grazing practices, allowing saplings to mature. It ensures that the DNA stock is adapted to be in that area and you're able to have a more natural distribution of plant species.
This is true. Leave a paddock fallow for a decade and it will become bush. However people like cleared land as they do stuff with it like plant vegetables and have cattle.
Thank you, I needed some hope for my grand kids future. Now if others follow this example we'll be fine.
Tree Farms or Tree Nurseries should be encouraged as businesses. I believe that a continuous supply of tree saplings would be beneficial to the entire continent. I was told it'll take 20 to 30 years to see improvements to the land that has been reforested.... Cooler Earth 🌎 shall be Australia's achievement....
No need to plant saplings. Just leave the land fallow and native trees will sprout. The soil contains a myriad of seeds that can last for decades before sprouting.
I woukd love Australia to become a world role model in the reforestration and revival of biodiversity.
Awesome news, much needed and didn’t realise such good things were happening in own backyard…👍
I have been saying for years that major cities and centres around Australia, should use treated effluent to help revegetate inland Australia, this will improve the water table, reduce the exposure of droughts and improve both fauna and flora.
I hope more countries follow this .... The rain forest in Brazil is another.
I hope they are planting a diverse natural greenery, Great Work!
Well done great job
We do plant new forest in Poland last 50 years
Good luck more countries should plant 🪴 a forest to save the planet
Keep planting those trees Australia. 👏🏻
More trees 🌳 increase rainfall 🌦 🌧 ⛈
@@LeafofLifeWorld like the east coast of Australia needs that right now in 2002 dont we! You Dummy!
MORE PROJECTS AND RESEARCH LIKE THIS PLSSS.
The narrator has such a sweet gentle voice.....💕I Love listening to her 😊
This is encouraging. I do hope other state follow and that the federal government comes up with a plan to green Australia.
The government ultimately has to do what the people want, but business has priority as they provide the jobs. Education and getting the word around is key - necessitating political action when enough people want it. Business leaders are people too and if swayed can push the political landscape faster.
Beautiful I’m so happy things are happening 💚🙏🏽🌳🥹🌿🌱🍃
Me too!!
Same here
Love these series! I make sure I don't miss a single one of them.
Thank you 😊
planet needs people like you as many as possible
repopulate the planet with right people
reforestation will follow suite
Farmers are already reducing fertilizer cost and use over 70% and reducing soil toxicity with the “SNX30 fertilizer supplement”. It’s backed by a growing number of agronomists and NCGA Corn Yield Winners too.
Saw the re greening of gobi desert with good results ,so knows it can be done in Australia to benefit people and animal alike prevents erosion .!
@Tree of Life. If we rebuild enough forests and areas start changing their weather patterns to have more rainfall, will migratory birds come in from other ecosystems with new seed types? These might be tropical and/or other more diverse species. I'd love to see more tropical jungles in our northern areas.
exactly what weve been discussing in our latest video, please take a look and tell me what you think :)
FFS we dont need any more foreign species in this country! they are destroying the bush and the native species!
Australia's forest area in 1990 was 1.338.820 sq km while in 2020 it had increased to 1.340.050 sq km. Data provided by FAO in 2020.
But that is plantains for plantations. The old growth native forest is still being logged..
Is that before or after the huge fires of 2020?
I'm glad to see a country taking the most common sense step there is to fixing the environment.
Used up farmlands from industrial agriculture can renew itself by converting them into forests. I would recommend fruit bearing trees that can be still a source of simple produce...an edible food for livestock or cattle ranchers nearby... But I believe the Australian 🏜 deserts must be reduced as well... creating a "little jungle" in Australia would benefit the earth I believe... Besides..this jungle would definitely help in cloud 🌥 formation and induce precipitation...
Australia already has one of the biggest rainforests in the world. It also has large tracts of land where trees won't grow. Monaro for instance means place of no trees in the local aboriginal language.
@@darrellturner560 Thanks for sensible comment. Some of the comments here *&&^%$% what are these people smoking they think they are just going to plant a garden in the middle of bum fuck nowhere and save the world!
"induce precipitation" like the east coast of Australia needs that right now dont we!
A good initiative. Yet, future greedy people will cut them down when they get the chance. Some create, others destroy.
why does the urban area build on farmland not the rubbish land that is not good farmland ?
We need to re green the whole of Australia. Make it more of a paradise!
Great work ,thank you.Very forward thinking.
trees planted in rows like that, only means they will be farmed later on.
But they will look pretty when they catch fire!
Exactly what I was thinking. A forest that looks like a checkerboard. Very native indeed. But I guess it looks green …
It's called
FOREST FARMING
Was all the go in late 90's.
The many acres involved in planting, some failed horribly.
There is no shortage of koalas in Oz. For example, there were tens of thousands of Koalas on Kangaroo Island, so many of them that they were destroying the native forests. They started talking about culling them but then the bushfires came along and did the job of culling them. The charities stepped in with their "save the Koala" campaigns, on the back of what happened on Kangaroo Island and have made millions out of these campaigns. Environmentalism, though taken seriously by some, is usually an opportunity for the scammers to step up.
its all a balance when trying to manage complex systems, thats all.
@@thePlum if humans wouldnt interfere so much it would probably do a better job managing itself! But yeh, a bit too late for that
You’ve got your head up your ars mate. Your understanding of koalas and habitat is truly devoid of any real understanding.
This is a total crock. Pure fantasy.
We have 2 biodiversity hotspots, 1 of which was classified in 2015. Which is atleast 70% cleared and holds atleast 1200 species of plant.
Suspect steaight libes are easeof planting and maintenance.
Didn't mention wether they are irrigated to establish.
However woukd have been nice to plant rows on contour
Weipa is on the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, not in Western Australia
at 4:26 she says "wheat belt" not Weipa if that's what you're referring to.
They should do a series on what is being done about the ancient deforestation in places like China, India and the Middle East. Those places had their forests decimated for fire, cooking, building and smelting metals a very long time ago. It would be nice to see them making a major effort on reforestation too.
They've already done a bunch of videos about northern Africa reforestation. But anyway what's your point, every country has been deforested a lot of it because of these colonizing nations like Britain.
We are making videos about every country for sure, all those countries have projects, we make one video a week and we are very small team, it's only possible to do so much. When you research one topic you find out about multiple stories thus create multiple videos, like we already did with our Sahara series.
I think China was regreening the Gobi desert and India well that was tricky because trees were being planted on land of local subsidence farmers, so they literally couldn't grow food to survive. The difference here is Australia is sparsly populated whilst China and India have population into the billions!
@@livi8225 Those countries were deforested well before those "colonizers" showed up. They had civilizations 1000's of years old that had been using forests/wood for a very long time and also clearing them for agriculture. Japan is the only country I know of that made an effort to replant instead of just using everything up. The only reason America retained its old growth forests was the Native Americans were primitive and had no metal tools to chop or saw forests down and no need to make charcoal (lots of wood) to smelt metals. No bronze, no iron, no steel not even the wheel, written language or beast of burden. They carried everything by hand or dragged it by hand. Fire was about the only tool they had to clear land for what small crops they planted.
China, India and the Middle East are all working on reforestation and reclamation projects and each are employing unique approaches that are radically different from each other.
Well done do your best we all need it.its a beautiful country. Plant plant plant.
That's funny....I do a couple of big 4x4 trips a year into the the centre region of SA,NT,QLD,NSW. I must have missed these so called forests.
This self-made disaster is exactly what happened in the US during the Dust Bowl years. In the 30s reforestation projects were enacted to stop wind erosion and restore some semblance of natural ecosystems.
Great effort to plant new trees to combat climate change! it would be great if companies also become more sustainable and contribute to the preservation of the world. how this is possible can be seen at the Green Company.🌍🙌🏼
Absolutely!
Human greed and stupidity will kill off our species…indigenous people are so much wiser in keeping a balance w nature…
since so many people in the world have so much time in his or her hand. it is time to start reforming Australia landscape before it is too late.
Green the whole desert. Build a mountain in the middle of the continent. Build canals, dig an inland sea. Flood walls around coastal cities. Orbital rings, fast trains, solar hydrogen production and export.
Yeh and change the entire country and all its natural habitations, why not? We're so super smart, we know better than nature hey? Our track record proves that.... not 🙄
they should also dynamite that red rock in the middle of the country because you can't plant trees on it.
"Build canals, dig an inland sea" FFS Does not work we tried this after the war all it does is raise the salt out of the soil that then kills everything!
@@shorny PMSL but wait till the owners are standing on it!
Sorry to be cynical - perhaps it comes with age! I find these photos ( then and now) very deceitful. A proper scientific study would show the precise GPS location and date. If this transformation is so simple and rapid - what is stopping us from repeating this everywhere? Surely it can't be money? I'd suggest doing a detailed budget-costs and returns - if this is a good investment- the cheap unproductive land can be converted to highly productive land. Let's begin,
This video is like a hollywood film mostly fiction!
They need to turn in up a couple dozen notches. The tree clearing is still out of control in the country areas. Even now days the vast number of station owners can't seem to make the connection. Taking out the trees does not mean more room for grass to grow! It just means less rain and more soil erosion. Sigh.
No if you take the trees out the grass grows much better because its gets more sunlight and stock and kangaroos etc eat grass they dont eat trees! How exactly do trees make rain? Soil erosion is caused by over grazing!
I just learned that Photosynthesis utilizes infrared (heat) radiation as energy to structure water into exclusion zone water and to create charged electrons to help run all cellular operations. So plants also literally trap heat inside chemical bonds.....
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If they use natives that also produce food and livestock feed they've got a winner.
Restoration ag practices would bridge the needs of people to eat, provide for livestock and still assist wildlife while regenerating topsoil, increasing soil carbon, improving water tables, lessening the impact or salt and need for irrigation, etc.
Wish you had a website.
I see you don't know much about Australia
@@bengrin7822
So why don't you fill us in on where they got it wrong???
Regreening the wildfire burned areas too? Hope can do the same in Brazil and other areas like California and UK
Just a few gripes, land clearing while it still happens is far from the free for all that it ounce was. And the high rate of mammal extinction is largely a result of the introduction of cats not land use. Other than that its good to see people that are trying new ways get some recognition, there are many here. People are working on the cats thing also, but it is no minor task. Cheers 👍. au
I believe doing this on a global scale will solve climate change. Forestation is the best carbon sequestration bar none.
The only caveat is to plant diversely. NOT massive single species planting.
@@mikewood8680 she mentioned around 30 to 50 diff species in this project, I think that is a good number
@@dylang736 yes but humans can and do have a direct impact on the climate, most noticeably from wide scale deforestation and turning the land in to vast monocultures
I thought I noticed this place. Peringery! Ray was a legend.
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20 million is nothing Australia need 20 trillion per month
They should dig canals to the dry areas from the areas that constantly flood. Would help with the wildfires too. Certainly wouldn't hurt.
Does not work FFS we tried this after the war all it does is raise the salt out of the soil that then kills everything!
Converting desertified regions back to arboreal regions is something we can do. It's just that for a long time people didn't want to bother with it.
More of this EVERYWHERE!
Makes one wonder what will happen to the planet once every nation exterminates their desert.
That would probably not be a good thing.
Thanks for this 💚 much appreciated
Hope they can continue and other countries need to follow
World community should raise funds for convert all the deserts into forests.
I'll be very surprised if this is about farming rather than regreening Australia.
Aussies won't do a thing without getting big buck rewards.
I've never seen this project on Australian TV. Pretty sure we are still logging out Tasmania.
We destroy mangroves and wetlands. The green belt is eaten up by builders. So much land that's not of such high value but nope we gotta destroy our best land for sprawling housing.
I planted 100s of trees on my 5 HT property in OZ 30 years ago. I didn't get a cent to do it. But I have the joy of wildlife everyday here, and NO carbon credits. And the oxygen they breath out is exhilarating when you walk amongst them.
These projects are dodgy. They are part green wash part money grab. It's better than a kick in the teeth but they are far from what they claim to be and get paid for the sequestration multiple times over because there's no honest tracing for carbon credits.
The money is coming from companies who want to offset their carbon
Mangroves are strictly protected last time I looked.
@@LeafofLifeWorld there you go, its always about money in the end
There's no reason Australia couldn't be terra formed into a virtual paradise.
There are plenty of reasons why Australia will never be a paradise. The main one the weather is extremely variable. We can have droughts lasting a decade followed by years of constant rain. In some places it rarely rains except when there are short periods of flooding rains.
There is a reason why most of Australia is uninhabited. It is uninhabitable.
@@kdegraa Everything you listed as an obstacle, has a solution. Australia simply doesn't have the will to do what should be done.
They should make heaps of giant, multilevel warehouses filled to the brink with automated farming to grow every crop under the sun, all the spices, all the mushrooms. Build a huge desalination plant , run it all off renewable, ocean hydro, wind, solar ect.
Build a massive fish farm combined with seaweed, mussels, oysters, scallops. Make a functional ecosystem farm as everything eats the fish poop
It'll create jobs for maintaining the machines, construction, reduce cost of raising animals, reduce the price of food to near nothing, yeild massive financial gain from exports, allow for the construction of new cites and possibly other benefits I can't think of
Heading into our 3rd year of La Nina. The deserts arte greening becxause the entire country is soaked to the gills!!
Where are you?
@@LeafofLifeWorld Sydney. Its raining again... and again... its been a solid year of rain.
@@LeafofLifeWorld So you do a video on Australia and bag all us evil Australians for destroying forests (which we dont do, you get fined 30,000$ if you chop a tree down in suburbia) then you answer a comment without doing any research into whats actually happening down here!
In another comment to you actually called us Austria FFS.
The first half of you video is complete BS!
Needs billions to restore the environment
But the environment is worth Trillions of dollars so its worth it.
Way to go people of Australia!
Thanks,my assignment was to go and work for the department of defense on developments of there land.
Britain weather and soil could allow for 90% forrest in GB.
But even x3 the forrest area in GB would be a great step.
THIS is how to change the climate. Lower carbon in the air. Increase ground water tables and slow floods and fires.
No we need to stop climate change, geez
@@michaelconroy9975 Har har. Lol. If we don't plant some freakin trees they're gonna try and take our cars. It's the soil not the air that's the issue.
Have we crossed the point of no return in terms of damaging the planet? There is no such point. We need to trust that our thought, which is our greatest quality, can change nature. We only need to understand the direction to which we should aim our thoughts. What should we think about? What condition or state should we aspire to and ask for?
In order to save our planet, we should think about positive human connections. That is, how can we, in our connections, keep nature safe? How can we all together protect our world? If we truly wish to better our planet, then we should see people holding a concern for how to positively connect everywhere that we look.
It has nothing to do with recycling or other activities that we commonly associate with as being sustainable. If we come closer to and consider each other, that we will reach an entirely organic, perfectly connected and round state, then the negative forces will disappear from the world.
We need to understand that if we start thinking better about each other, then the planet will recover from all harm, because our thoughts are the strongest force in nature. Likewise, our negative thoughts about each other are entirely to blame for damaging the planet. That is why the more we recycle and invest in energies and activities that we commonly think of as being sustainable, the worse our planet becomes. Nothing will work to benefit us until we reach a state where our attitude changes toward each other for the better to protect and improve our planet..
Im tired of people thinking of population increase as a problem. I think with increased population comes increased human potential to solve the problems we face. Like you say.. More thought resource.
@@vincentleone1833 "with increased population comes increased human potential " Not if the people breeding are dipshits!
@@rods6405 even two dipshits can cancel each other out and have a decent offspring.
@@vincentleone1833 No genetics dont work like that! Two bad parents = Bad offspring! is probably what i should have said
and you just cant keep increasing the population it does not work even with animals they run out of room, food and water and drown in their own shit! I have seen it on farms.
@@rods6405 oh no genetics doesnt work like that? Lol. People arent cows. You need to adjust your vantage point. People grow people change people do good and bad things and learn.
It started in the early 1800's and continues to this day.
Official data allows an estimate of the scale of the contrast: little more than two years of land clearing will effectively cancel out what the public is spending to avoid 125 million tons of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere. *The equivalent to what has been planted over several years in the 20 million trees program is wiped out in just six months of land clearing.*
It's super depressing watching all these reforesting and other environmental videos that basically all start with "it call began when the British came and colonized them..."
Don’t be depressed:) it all began when first people arrived to Australia 60000 years ago and started to burn down the whole continent in order to clear the space for easy hunting and British just speed up the process 200 years ago.
@@danielriabets7310 That's rubbish. Fire farming isn't what you got taught in school. Even if it was true (again it isn't and without the human land management preformed by indigenous peoples all over the world wild fires are a greater risk not only to people but wildlife and even the forests themselves) then to say that the English just sped it up for the last 200 years is laughable. Like the Aboriginals were trying but in 59800 years could get done what the white man did in 200? The English established colonies everywhere for plunder and natural resources are easy plunder.
@@Tasmantor why is it laughable? you can see already in the map that shows how much forest cover there was in 1800 compared today 0:52
Fire stick farming definately happened but that doesn't mean everything was burned, areas are selected for specific reasons. Large trees were never felled since they had spiritual significance, these are support trees and help younger trees to grow back. Fire stick farming normally works on rotation, where the area is farmed for a few years or cleared for hunting then left to grow back. The problem with the last 200 years is that, colonizers took the land and to hold it for centuries doing the same repeated actions such as tiling and grazing introducing non native species and not allowing anything to grow back and just degrading the soil for plus 100 years. Aboriginal people just did not do this, they were nomadic/ semi nomadic so moved from place to place, which allows for nature to grow back. Its not that the aboriginal people didn't have some sort of impact on the landscape but the colonial farming practices are just much more destructive and over all accelerated the rate of land degredation.
@@LeafofLifeWorld the Map at 0:52 is Europe if you mean the map at 1:10 its bulshit see my other comment!
Just a word about fire, fire once you light one in the bush it tends to fuck everything up except Eucalypt trees, they and other plants that have evolved a protection or regrowth strategy!
" Large trees...spiritual significance" Thats laughable they did not have metal axes! Only stone tools! Try cutting down a iron bark tree with a rock! they have no need for wood to build houses because they didn't build houses...... nomadic
No! Large trees stop younger trees from growing because the large trees block the sunlight (trust me In know see my home page image for idea of my back yard)
Fire stick farming you have no idea at all!
In Australia the Aborigines did it to get instant meal because game will run out of the fire or the fire will kill and cook the game!
it clears the land to make spotting game easier(most native Australian animals are short).
It also creates grassland to support high herds of large game (Kangaroos etc)
Note there were plenty grasslands created by the Aborigines b4 the British arrived! camdenhistorynotes.com/2018/04/27/the-cowpastures-region-1795-1840/
The rest of your rant is just anti British bollocks "colonial farming practices are just much more destructive" If farming practices are bad the farm fails FFS and you move on "from place to place" just like the Aboriginal did they hunted a place out till there was nothing left to eat then they moved on, is not that "degrading". Even worse they had savage battles with the next tribe, with the winner, killing all the men, taking the woman and the hunting lands from the other tribe.
Australia became the largest exporter of wool and fed a growing nation with these "colonial farming practices" the basis of the civilized world!
The greatest Australian desert is not in Australia.
It's down under.
In Lake Macquarie as in most of NSW its very easy to get permission to cut down trees - developers don't even bother to apply. But if you dare plant a tree without permission council will rip it up.
I couldn't imagine living in a place with no trees
Show me a plan to compensate the original people! Of course no plans for that! 🤨
Its called the native title act, not enough for some but a bout as good as it is going to get.
Well as a Caucasian which has a direct bloodline to the first people on earth, this aboriginal would like compensation.
My German/aboriginal friend next door started this with me, so I reminded him that my direct descendent's were killed by nazies and his,grandad was a officers of the ss.
I then said I want you to leave this land and pay me restitution as i am first genaration white aboriginal of australia, he is quite intelligentand and at that point understood how stupid this whole notion of people owing other people something for no apparent reason besides they were born was.
(Consider this thought as restitution for being taught to think silly and quite retarded things)
Kind regards from the earths first people's...........your welcome......
You sound like a 100% fool! You obviously aren’t well educated in truth!!! 🤨
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20 millions is so minuscule compared to the billion trees that burned :(
"the billion trees that burned" have all grown back by now they have been being burned since the Aborigines arrived *0,000 years ago FFS
Sad but true mate
This is the best video I have seen this year, great job Aussie, very good job. I was wondering if it's feasible to build a network of storm drainage systems that channels the floods from Queensland to the drought areas in the center.
deforestation was the cause not farming
Yes deforestation is a cause but they did the deforestation to farm it, and farmed using land mangement practices that cause land degredation
@@LeafofLifeWorld deforestation was done because the english didn't have wood anymore. that is what I understood in the beginning of your video. and then once the wood was gone farmers can use it . same is going on in the rain forest in south america.
@@eleonoramarree You may be right about foresting coming first and then farmers moving in. I'm sure you would also agree that modern farming practices do not help soil fertility, ability to hold water, and general soil and area health?
I think their point is that modern farming is not helping this problem of desertification.
@@eleonoramarree you can deforest but the forest will grow back, but if you over farm, over till, over graze, over fertilize and introduce non natives, of course you going to cause an ecological disaster
@@LeafofLifeWorld a person who works on the land in Australia you have vilified every Australian farmer with this incorrect information our farmers do not go out their destroyed land in Australia we have sum crappiest soils in the world if we go out there destroy land we have no crop
Well done
Every single person could plant something , plants, trees or anything that grows. To make it work it must be systemic and habitual!
Despite being majority desert and arid scrubland, Australia was number six in forest area by country in 2020, and this area was more than it had been in the previous three years according to some statistics. So there is a lot of forest in Australia and it is not all a barren wasteland. The British did not clear most of the country of trees because in much of the country there were no trees. Trees were cleared in some more fertile areas to establish agriculture and laws are now in place in many areas to control further tree clearing but there is still opposition among some landowners, so preservation and regeneration efforts must continue to achieve a balanced and controlled management of forest resources.
Australia is alot bigger than most countries with sparse population, thats why its forested area is still larger than most other countries
Its well documented that when Europeans arrived they brought their own ideas for food and agricultural and started clearing the land, logging the timber and building settlements.
Really good to see all these reforestation projects, but is there a reason they're planting in a strait line? I always wonder why plant in such a structured way, because it doesn't look natural at all. Could be a reason to it, but the outcome makes it look man made.
we need to replant and reseed Australia for new and improve vegetation. Some will have to be cut and new plants will have to be planted accordingly.
new and improve seeding machine will have to be designed and quickly cover all land space of Australia within our lifetime.
plant growth grows at the same time sharing the same air and sun. Australia soil will have to be improved by mixing and fertilizing for better soil improvement.
we all won't be here to enjoy the landscape however we can for see the pictures aided by our computer projection it is good enough.
Excellent. Keep up the good work and eliminate the deserts.
Thus is far more important than Mars colony on my humble opinion. Imagine all those money pot into Earth not in space. We can actually save our beautiful home planet❤
Good job guys