Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:12AM (#20564475)

Which is a scattergun approach, no? What's the survival rate? I'd guess 1:100 if you're not tending them.

But, in Ethiopia many of those trees are going to need watering, surely? Protecting from people gathering firewood?

Sweden and Ethiopia seem pretty different wrt tree planting?

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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by mikeg8 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:45AM (#20565250)

Definitely a scattergun approach but that’s similar to how nature does it, I’ve heard the survival rate for seedlings in north American confirer forests to be about 1:1,000,000.

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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:11AM (#20565529)

Is that for natural or manual (eg from helicopter) scattering?

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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by mikeg8 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:50PM (#20567313)

Natural. Each year a forest may produce hundreds of millions of seeds but only a few thousand saplings survive.

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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by noselasd on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:46AM (#20565992)

You do it like this https://youtu.be/VbBDX9ySk60 , 80-90% survival rate is common

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