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Since 1978, one million hectares of mangroves have been cut down in Myanmar. In the Ayerwaddy Delta in the south, mangrove forests have been significantly depleted - often cut down to make way for shrimp and rice farming, as well as charcoal production and collecting palm oil. Worldwide, 35 percent of the world's mangroves are now lost.
[...] Mangroves play a vital role in the fight against climate change and extreme weather events such as cyclones. They help mitigate carbon emissions, as well as protect vulnerable coastal communities from extreme weather, while strengthening seafood stocks up to 50 percent. While Meung and many locals have tried taking matters into their own hands, planting over 400,000 seedlings by hand to try and repopulate the mangrove population, the activity has taken three years and there is a lot more yet to be done before another cyclone hits.
takyon: A team from BioCarbon Engineering is helping to plant new mangrove trees using drones:
Bremley Lyngdoh, founder and CEO of Worldview Impact and a board member of Worldview International, said a single pilot can use the drones, courtesy of BioCarbon Engineering, to plant about 100,000 seeds per day. The drones can fire one seedpod into the soil every minute and fly for approximately half an hour at a time.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @11:34PM (2 children)
I love the idea of plants sprouting from the corpses of people dumb enough to start a genocide when they were outnumbered. (muslims gonna muslim) Adding pork would be better though, since it sends them directly to Hell.
The US military already has a development program for bullets that sprout plants. It's some sort of "green ammo" program at DARPA, created due to concern about toxic metal at places where the military practices live fire. Plants that take toxic metals from the soil are preferred.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @05:04PM (1 child)
Umm, don't you have that backwards? Buddhists gonna not-buddhist?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @08:06PM
Muslims (the Rohingya) from Bangladesh illegally entered and settled in a neighboring Buddhist country called Myanmar or Burma. They then decided to start killing infidels, as muslims are want to do. Buddhists will fight back if you piss them off enough, which takes some doing. Killing the Rohingya qualifies as self-defense; they started it.