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posted by takyon on Monday May 07 2018, @10:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the dronegrove dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

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.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/earthrise/2018/04/cyclone-shield-breathing-life-myanmar-mangroves-180430100914882.html

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @12:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @12:16AM (#676840)

    What wrong with womangroove? You forgot the use of it?