The Tamers of Sands of the Gobi Desert | SLICE EARTH
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- Minquin is an oasis town wedged between two Chinese deserts: Badain Jaran and Tengger. A natural barrier between the two, which must be preserved at all costs.
Today, this boundary is disappearing and the sand is rushing into a breach: the Mouth of the Tiger. If the immense masses of sand from these two deserts were to merge, the flow of sand falling on Beijing would increase significantly, and the city would pay dearly.
An army of farmers is waging a war against the sand in an attempt to put the brakes on the desert.
Documentary: Planet Sand - Episode 5: China, At War Against Deserts
Direction: Thierry Berrod
Production: ARTE France & MONA LISA PRODUCTION
#documentary #freedocumentary #ecology #earth #environment #sustainability #climatechange #science #china #desertification #minquin
#oasis #desert #sand #trees #plantsvssand #plants #reforestation - Věda a technologie
It amazes me how we can't enjoy video's like this without someone in comments relating it back to politics, without any kind of source or just outright jealous that this country is doing something about a environmental problem. Let us celebrate these achievements of building greenwalls / reforestation wherever it's happening , because in the end it will benefit the local people and YOU in broader sense as citizen of this planet we all live on.
This is the best comment have read today, thank you 🙏
Ahh... yoo sho do tark arot
@@thebrowns5337 thank you and totally agree with you on all of your comment
Bei uns in Doofland macht die Ampel gerade grüne Energie… und zerstört durch Abholzung 1000…. sende Hektar Wald … Super das es solche Projekte gibt.. Danke an die Arbeiter und an China
They are lies....problem is you believe them cause you are a simple person with no common sense.
I have checked out recent videos of these deserts and they are now green and luscious. China is doing an amzing job.
I doubt it
@@rezzer7918 , I don't.
@@rezzer7918bc you are still living in a basement room. Know nothing about the outside world.
Link please 🥺
@@alm_alb czcams.com/video/bO2Hz3oX5d8/video.htmlsi=ECAz2EVNtQZA2hjb
If the footage is from 2014, which is 10 years ago, I wonder how it looks today. You should make a follow up video about it in 2024, it'd be very interesting.
Probably like shit. Like most projects in china
Based on the lumber that is being exported by China from areas restored during the green wall project not very well. Most of the trees seem to have a higher rate of insect and disease infestation compared to trees produce in other areas . They also have shown higher signs of stresses related to lack of adequate water and nutrients
Thanks,from thailand
@@critterjon4061 insects and diseases in desert 😂 hel no
They planted all the sane type and 80% died but they are rectifying it with diversity
According to the latest statistics, China has made significant progress in desert afforestation and management over the past few years. Specifically, till 2023, China completed afforestation covering approximately 2.424 million acres, improved grassland through planting grass on about 2.653 million acres, and successfully treated desertified and rocky desertification land covering approximately 1.156 million acres.
Thanks for the stats and figures! do you have the source, so that we can share it with people that would want more informations 😊
Chinese is the only race fight against the desert restlessly and with some level of sustainable success. Thanks to those involved this great and meaningful job
But busy destroying water bodies in Africa
Any proofs
@@wanhunkow are you aware that illegal mining activities are ongoing in Africa? Do you know those involve in such activities? The are the Chinese.
Well it seems to be quite the assumption to say they are the only ones.. you can find examples from other nationalities on videos from this very channel, for both cases
The Chinese are failing miserably. Corruption is rampant, and prohjects fail long before they are even completed. Many projects are based on "the look of things" rather than a deep understanding of reclamation/restoration.
Bribes and communist ideology over common sense also hampers success.
The Loess Plateau has been the only long term success, and the current leader messed that too...
We have a beautiful planet , so nice to see people looking after it instead of destroying it ❤
Китайцы молодцы трудолюбивый народ
Great battle, win for everyone .❤ Don't make war with people , let make war with hard side of natural.
"China is a sleeping giant, when she wakes she will shake the world"
Napolean
chinese people are so hard working ❤
love form Bangladesh 🇨🇳❤️🇧🇩
Well done China
Good work people of China show the way forward for the rest of the world of big talking environmentlists especially the UN .
Well done China, incredible. Hope this motivates other countries, especially in Africa, to do something similar.
China shares its experience with African countries and funds their effort to reforestation. Ethiopia follows China's model used at Loess Plateau and is quite successful.
Wonderful episode, would have loved to see more!
Thank you!
Beautiful work and a great video showcases all the hard work and splendid results of the Chinese people. What's disturbing is that all the replies underneath the comments have suddenly disappeared from this video, what's up with that censorship, CZcams?
Wow 😮 good work 👌from Pakistan 🇵🇰 ❤ 🇨🇳
Wow amazing people
क्या कोई भारतीय दर्शक है 🇮🇳❤️
Haa
yes many vicious pajjeets
This is what mankind really ought to be focused on, making our planet green, healthy and bountiful.
Imagine if the world were not dominated by greedy sociopaths having wars to steal "this natural resource" from "that group" and instead put their efforts into cooperation and projects like these. I know, I know, how silly. More like how sad that isn't how it is.
This is amazing ❤
Très intéressant & prometteur : un grand Merci!
Merci beaucoup à vous !
JUST BEAUTIFUL. MORE LAND SPACE FOR A GROWING POPULATION.
That's admirable worthy to be emulated.
Chinese strategies against Arabic Culture and Arabic Desert is indeed appreciable ❤
A simple solution for Arabic countries: building solar farms in the desert.
Superb🎉🎉keep it up
Thank you so much 🙏
Wow so amazing
Their ancestors built the Great wall. Impossible is a word they dont understand .👍👏👍👏
Great job....work and work great people.....
Вот как они китайцы самый умные, красивые дома деревне независимо от бедности построили одинаковые дома. Сейчас пошли на пустыни чтобы людям конфорт было и чистый востух. А у нас россии нет красивых дома деревне только одни развалины. Как китайцы быстро развивает везде во всех сверах. Говорят китайцы угнетает уйгуров, а дома уйгуров очень красивые . Приежайте россии посмотрите как россияны живут , обсолютно партак .
Chinese people are hard work and smart 👍🏻
Glad they came up with something other than using shovels to implant straw by hand. I know they have a lot of cheap labor, but all that should be mechanized with planters such as how farmers plant agricultural fields.
They do it out of love for their country, they are very patriotic!
Very good job congratulations to Chinese engineers.
@slice Please make a detailed full episode if possible. So interesting.
Noted! ;)
This is unbeleivable..
Where do they get water from.???
Excellent video
Thanks for watching!
Keep it up people your doing a great job.!
Wish it was longer
Can soil not be mixed to sand ?
Είστε αρχαίος πολιτισμος σας λέει κάτι
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You can spray Oil mixed in Water to prevent the Desert Sand from moving. Spray 80 percent water mixed with 20 percent Oil and spray this on the surface of the Desert Sand to prevent the Sand from moving.
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China is amazing with nature
Would love to see some of the projects Mark Shepard has done.
THEY could teach the Chinese how to interplant, instead of doing side-by-side monocrops, as well as capturing the water that does fall.
These are the projects thats we want to improve 🌵🌱🐞 more and more but sad realltiy we wasting lots of money for wars...😢
即使是在中国，他们也是伟大的人，谈到他们，也会让人肃然起敬❤
The yellow sand is getting worse every year.
Are these projects progressing?
You should try cactuses.
Waw
There should be a gofundme for these type of things . Instead we have people funding crazy things .
I take my hat off to these people.🎩They are doing an amazing job👏🏼 I have an idea so that the sand is not blown into the city by wind. Cardboard paper should be placed in the sand, fixed with stones at the corners.
Chinese use squared grass grid to fix the sand.
China Gobi green village desert
事实上，green wall远比视频里描述的宏大。从1978年开始，3个阶段8期工程，直到2050年结束。同时还结合南水北调西线工程。实际工程规模超乎你的想象。
All please plant trees
They should leave the dead trees as a food source for the new trees.
Necesitan maquinaria hacer eso
Why these channels keep on showing these decade old videos??? Why cant they show a recent video of these projects so we have an idea wether these actions really worked
try to google "nasa photos of greening china deserts".
But all the same species of plant, shouldn't they plant a few different varieties to make it more resilient?
Yes. They are having great tree losses where they planted monocultures of trees by the road. The lack of plant diversity is is harming soil life. Zero animals go into these places and that harms it further.
In the first place, there are only few trees that can survive the desert condition 😅. So these plants are the most resistant ones. 8:49 you can hear the different species of trees. It's not monoculture.
Also, these regions probably originally desert for thousanss of years. So, no native plants.
Edit: and also, everything has process. They just planting big trees. The shrubs will come later naturally. And othee plants too. It's all natural. And with steps
They plant big trees first to give shades to the ground so the other plants can grow.
@DBT1007
They were planted for their use once cut, rather than "best tree for the site." Additionally these are a monoculture, and these trees are already dying out due to disease.
If they had planted pioneer species, such as Prosopis, (mesquite) these trees might have acted as a nursery to other plants and animals, but it failed. Zero additional plant or animal life has come in. To come in far at all, they risk death.
As the video pointed out, they failed at biodiversity and suffered the consequences. They added more variety later.
@@luisanthonychau
Really? WHERE?
Son increíbles... tecnologías... CHINOS.
NASA report: China is leading the world in Greening of Earth global warming (Feb 12, 2019)
Ahí si deberían sembrar nubes
BEAUTIFUL. NO BLASTED utility poles
The sand can use for mixing in cement in making house hahaha
Plastic net is useful. ...to....save the moisture content ,,,
Bom para todos nós no planeta Terra Mario siviero rio de janeiro Brasil.
👌👌👌👌👌🇳🇵🙏
You have to try cloud seeding in desert lol😂
ความตั้งใจดี!!!
แต่ถ้าถามฉันสิ่งที่จะได้คือ กรีนเฮาส์โซลาเซลล์และสนามโซลาร์เซลล์ผสมป่าผลไม้….สไตล์ฉันมันก็แบบนี้แหละ!!!
🤭🤭🤭
^ ^
❤Hoffentlich zeigt man das Herrn Scholz. Da lohnt sich deutsche Beteiligung.
Halo everybody brothers asia don't think accumulate many bags to see better rich earth plants vegetation helth she has to food stong bless Gods believe he to create haven all. Don't important during 224 year's strong geration better now we can doing only.
They shouput compost there also, look what orange peels did in the rain Forrest.
植林活動には、トラクターとショベルカーを導入するべきだと感じます‼️
They would sink.
Somewhere robots are planting now
I support this kind of efforts.. good for chinese people. But I hate their government for claiming and harassments in the south china sea, in that case chinese are arrogant. China must focus on like this kind of efforts and not intimidating other countries because of their might.
No. Chinese is not arrogant. They are willfully ignorant. I can bet you 99% of Chinese don't pay attention to anything overseas.
China is getting along with the Philippines just fine when Duterte was the president. That their relationship suddenly deteriorate after Marcos is no accident. With his family fortune held by the US, Macros is just another puppet like Zelenskyy.
If they use some half black clay and half fartile sand then my be the water 💦 stick longer 🙏 🇮🇳🙏🙏
Without animal dung desert can't be converted into greenary, impossible
How do you know there is no animal manure?
Waa Meel uu SAQAJAAN walba uu Mashruuc. Ku Qaatay UMMADAN .
Should be noted they are failing to harvest rainwater around the trees. They need to plant for rain as well as for tree roots. A polyculture works much better than a monoculture.
Plant good Arabia dates to.
Only possible with increasing atmospheric CO2
China Rocks 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Renaturalisation Technology 2 increase efficieny n benefit humanity rescue Order Elhamdullilah ❤
I have seen peoples greening deserts with methods to trap water and contour the land...
A long term action great fully presiated by our lands. But it's also about to live in Eden not in hell. Eden it's not the apparent pease of a dead and out of wild life quiet cities. Eden it's every person connected with the infinite language and visual expression of the living cluster that sustain continuity. There is no bigger real divine blessing. From dearth we come to dearth we will go.
Ahh rotsa ruck k? Hokay!
Αυτα επρεπε να τα κανετε απο το 1980
μάλλον θα έπρεπε
why are they not planting different species of trees? sorry but this is not a forest and will likely not survive. Biodiversity is key
No mountain? Pouring water in hidden holed pot.
First time I saw black Chinese
Dark not Black! China is so huge you can't literally imagine. Its a civilization not a country.
On 1 end you plant trees, on the other end you make weapons of mass destruction..i don't understand the irony..those areas with trees will soon become either your own nuclear testing ground or somebody else's bomb target.
Anything can be politicized, right？
Tiền , nhân lực và ý chí con người...thì chắc chắn Trung Quốc có , nhưng nước ( H2O ) thì...tính sao ?
Good luck china.. hope you succeed
wow Muslim Chinese planting that trees 🥰🥰🥰👍👍👍👍
They are not Muslim. They cover their faces and body parts to lessen sun exposure. Keep in mind that in China, the lighter the skin color, you are as the more upper class compares to the darker skin-colored “peasants”.
Throw thousands of tons of Garbage in the Desert to fertilize the Desert Sand
If they used the Groasis waterbox, they'd only have to water once at planting.
Groasis creates problems, it reduces healthy soil biology, and watering must be done until plants are established, period.
It is better to create water-capturing terraforming, like checkdams, swales, and terracing. Accompany that with mulch, biome-appropriate diverse plantings, and add wildlife and livestock to manage overgrowth and bring additional utility. Make sure livestock never graze the grass below 7".
Avoid synthetic chemical inputs.
Look up Mark Shepard on restoration ag, and Brad Lancaster on rainwater harvesting.
Groasis harms soil life, which is its biggest problem. Plants need biology rather than a bake box that "holds water."
@@b_uppy the cases that I've seen, the seedlings wouldn't have survived without human watering, so Groasis allowed watering once or twice per year, then it disintegrates and the small tree survived on its own.
@gr8bkset-524
I have never seen where groasis "disintegrates."
Have seen planting pits, etc that harvest rain water instead of letting it run away horizontally to the sea. The pits are dug to some size. The extra dirt is mounded to the low side to capture even more water. The plant is put in the depression where it has a much larger surface area. This larger area retains water, accumulates humus, leaves, manure, etc and gives longer term, lower tech, lower cost support to trees.
Other methods of harvesting rainwater could be employed to raise water table levels, such as check dams, swales, bunds, etc.
@@b_uppy I think what you're referring to are semicircular dugouts that captures water runoff and works for environments that has seasonal rain but lost the capacity to hang on to water because of organic matter loss. Most of the water that is captured by this method seeps into the ground and a little is kept for the plant. The videos I've seen of Groasis are in environments that get almost no rain. What the Groasis does is provide very very slow seep irrigation so that the plant's roots grow deep and finds water. That few gallons that Groasis holds lasts an entire year. Some Groasis are made from paper pulp with a layer of impermeable liner and can break down.
i wish some one rich can donate them sand glass.
Shouldn't play with mothers nature
They devasteted allmost orginal forrest for Mega city, then try to grow trees in desert now. Good idea for painting green.
I agree with you, they seem to plant to stop the desert gaining ground though, more than to green the country
tropical food trees and on the floor billions will grow all the way down to saudi arabia and all africa good rain for an eternity all diffrent
You can spray Oil on the sand to prevent the sand from moving. The next thing is use thousands of tons of Garbage in the Desert to prevent the sands moving. Carry all Garbage to the Desert to regreen the Desert. Regreen the Desert with Garbage.