This is interesting. When I built my house on 5 acres 20 years ago I planted over 500 trees. I used native trees..but lots of different varieties. Seeing this video makes me realize I accidentally did the right thing..cuz 20 years later my forest is awesome!
@@howardbaxter2514 sure...I'm not real computer savvy..I'm on a smart phone..do you have a text number? I can send pictures that way. Let me know..I'll make time to pull some out this week if you want.
As a Forester, and leading a sum of reforestation project, I can verify that these information are correct. Thank you very much for a proper video about reforestation.
Hmmm really? Your a wanna be forester. Many of his info is incorrect and or missed important points.the video itself is important but every think how the trees are maintained and kept alive and I thought that there is more herbivores them so wouldn’t they be nearly all eaten. Just something to think about Mr “forester”.
@@Willybean08 Forests come with fungi dominated soil, while grassland comes with bacterial dominated soil. They kind of exclude each other. Thats why fruit trees in a garden grow better with a tree pit and less good with lawn right onto the their stems.
Meanwhile the conclusion I have made is if you eliminate all the apex predators in the system, humans can take their place instead... hunters get to hunt big game without harming the environment, sounds good to me
I'm a researcher in ecological modelling and I think it's so great that you're not only educating people but also doing it very very interstingly and scienticly correct. I had the exact same thoughts on the team trees project but came to the same conclusion: Any (temporary) carbon sequestration effort is important! (Though maximizing effectiveness isn't certainly bad either :D)
The teamtrees project will plant equivelent to 10,000 regular forests or habitats for animals and resources. Here's a link if you want to help, teamtrees.org/ and if you aready donated do it again because we are MORE THAN half way there!
I'm sure you already know that we would have to plant twice the amount of trees per day for a year just to sequester the amount of carbon the US generates. This amount triple to sequester the amount of carbon the rest of the planet generates. This project is nothing more than a nice gesture but in no way should it be promoted that it will have any significant impact on the fight for climate change. Watch this video for more info: czcams.com/video/N5UugtV06qw/video.html
@@mysteryguest9555 It's about encouragement and a new forest makes habitats for animals that despratlly need it. Not only that, but also foilage can cover up once dead masses of land like ashes or bad soil and make more plants grow in it. Our family has solar pannels and you don't, so shut up and try to make the future worth looking forward to!
@@alexh349 I'm sorry that you think that this will help solve the global warming problem, it won't. As you stated, it will provide other wonderful benefits but it won't do a damn thing about easing global warming. It's equivalent to trying to use a garden hose to put out a massive forest fire. It wouldn't be able to save a tree. So stop deluding yourself with this wishful thinking. This problem is massive and 20 million trees isn't going to make a dent, not even a tiny one.
@@mysteryguest9555 It would be nice to have many new forests or normal ones expanded. Also 20,000,000 trees is a lot and they will reporduce, not only that but also provide more foilage whitch is good and more plants can grow on good soil. It makes more habitats for animals and things can survive much better. It even sets a good example for the future, and will be youtubes first accomplishment.
@Jim Eriksson oh I thought you just didn’t know lmao Also, even though donations are no longer around, that doesn’t mean the project isn’t either. They still had to, you know, plant the trees
Clear-cutting huge areas of forests and then planting new timber stock onto the area isn't solving any climate problems, but is just as much at fault as burning fossil fuels. The forestry companies spend millions on PR to prove you otherwise...
@@SanSiim How is cutting down trees and then replanting them for timber bad for the climate? Aren't you still taking more and more carbon out of the athmosphere by doing this?
@@moralhazard8652 Most of the timber that is cut down will be burnt in a way or another within ~5 years max. Loads of wood goes into paper and cardboard production (like in Sweden and Finland for instance). The mono culture wood plantations are made just for the wood harvest and few animal species will find any living space in them. There is a big difference in forest and forest...
This model is intresting. However in places like here in the EU, even in locales where 70% of the land is covered by forests, its ALL managed forests. That are cut for wood then replanted. Apex predators were driven exctinct - by eradication programs in the middle ages, and early modern age - and are now slowly creeping back, and in regards to roads, well unpassable roads, like highways, are mandated to have elevated bridges covered with plants (instead of blacktop) to allow animals to pass through.
Was just about to mention that. Switzerland is exactly in your mentioned situation. Seems like we are years ahead of places like the US. And yet, as the wolve has returned in Switzerland. Many alpine farmers want to get rid of them again, whilst they are actually incredibly precious to the entire ecosystem of forests. Instead of giving the shepards dog that are specially trained to scare of wolves they want to shoot them. In Slovenia, all shepards have dogs that are larger than wolves and protect their sheep herds and so they face no losses whilst not killing any of the apex predators. They found a great solution. And yet, in Switzerland, politics don't even look beyond thr borders to see what other countries have achieved but instead try to work out their own useless solutions. Sometimes, I really feel like countries aren't able to look beyond the horizon for solutions. Instead, they stay focused on their own little place and try to re-invent the wheel. It's such wasted time. Also, we should be looking back at our ancestors, not even tgat far back, who knew how to live in harmony with the environment. But no, we need to find nee ways, whilst we could actually just look a few years back and see how we did things previously which in fact weren't that bad!
*Reconnecting the forest patches* is even more simple. 1m or 2m diameter pipe tunnel under the roads can connect the forest patches without making expensive bridges. Animals use such tunnel bridges, if there is a fence blocking the crossing of the road.
Both methods work. Usually tunnels are cheaper, though you have to consider landscape and maintenance. Tunnels can get blocked, it can be hard to dig through rock, though it can be even harder to tunnel through mud without it filling. There are very capable specialists deciding which technique to use, the important thing for the rest of us is that we push to have forests connected regardless of connection method.
you're never going to get a thriving ecosystem in a city park, the area is way too small and too populated by humans for any sizeable animals to make their home, the biggest animals you could hope for are squirrels, which are already very common.
Also the teamtrees project will plant equivelent to 10,000 regular sized forests or habitats for animals and resources. Here's a link if you are interested, teamtrees.org/
Krat hi! I’m interested in reforestation, I’m an undergrad. What are some resources and considerations I should think of for transitioning into the workforce. I know that’s a vague question but any inspiration or not talked about key thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you!
@@Keallei We have pine tree saplingsassmall as a 1-centemerer one with a seed on top opened up. Trees should be able to block weeds from shade they make in mass quantities and they grow a bit every spring. Make shure they have good root room. Some trees can have a branch that comes out but achatches back to it's own stump one is at our house.
It's not about stopping climatee change or reversing it. It's about showing that we want change. Go watch Mark Rober's vid and actually listen to his response to those tired old arguments about how it won't stop climate change. And yeah, the donations have slowed a bit; but I bet Project for Awesome will see a large rush of donations to TeamTrees just in time to reach the goal by Christmas.
Planting trees to promote bio-diversity without paying attention to the soil in which those trees are planted is like having surgery without anti-biotics - It looks showy, but won't really solve the problem... Forests take centuries, even millennium in some cases, to mature. We can of course help the process. But we would need an intergenerational plan, to do so. First, you'd want to start with wild-flowers; which can grow in nutrient-poor soils which, as they die, enrich the soils with more complicated chemical compounds (nutrients). Second, once the soil is sufficiently nutrient-rich, you would want to introduce what are known as 'pioneer species of trees. The most well-known of these to westerners are Birch trees. Similar to the wild-flowers, over a series of death-life cycles; an eco-system of various different kinds of fungi will have colonised the soil, feeding on the deadwood; which was left from the Birch. This fungi stage is important as many plants and large trees require the presence of Fungi to be healthy - with both fungi and trees interacting with one another in a complicated symbiosis. Lastly, once the former is in place, Humans would have to take the place of apex predator - unless you want the occasional jogger or kid to get eaten, which is often the case in environments where the traditional apex predator hasn't been exterminated. The exchange between fungi, plants and animals/humans is required for a healthy forest. Unless we don't care that anything we plant will most likely die within a few decades, then we require a healthy forest. Otherwise, we might as well not even bother doing anything...
@Cordon Vidger I like nature. But humans don't really want it, not really. For instance, I believe if there are people setterling in an area with man-eating predators, everyone should either carry a gun or wipe the preditor out. I find human life infinity more valuable. I think anyone who would disagree, would change their mind after loosing a family member to a predator. So we don't want 'nature', we want a Zoo. My second general point about conservationism, is that I'm not hopeful. Think about it this way; it's easier to break something then to build something. Surely we'd have to spend just as much, maybe even more, trying to repair the environment then has been spent breaking it. So the question is, how can we spend that kind of money on what amounts to an aestheticall preference? For conservationism to work it has to be as financially profitable as is the things which are destroying the environment. That, or our wealth has to become completely detached from the environment. This is what had happened in Europe, for the most part. It's why "we're" so pro nature - nature is something exotic and romantisised to "us".
@@7hi5on35 removing the ability for apex predators to coexist with humans is much worse than the loss of a single human at a single point in time. I don't disagree with your first point about the value of life but shouldn't we also value the generational struggle by humans these predators have to go through because of their aggressive nature? if the answer he provided was for humans to become the apex predators you still disregard the life and future these species aren't being given. I believe a solution to this the careful protection and avocation for these species and where they live. It might sound like a potshot but is it irrational to say we could simply do the best for the forest and then leave it to thrive?
@@7hi5on35 People who have lost a family member to a predator will hate the fact that it happened to them, but they won't suddenly start hating nature. Someone who lost family to a car accident doesn't suddenly start hating ever car or every driver.
@@lowkey_Ioki You're funny. Maybe you're young. I can honestly say, without gilt, I'd rather a particular species go extinct then to loose either my wife or one of my kids. I'd say you either lack such a person in your life or lack imagination. Maybe I'm weird and more selfish then most. I don't think I am though. Noah and the Wale is based off a true story where a bull Wale would attack ships because his pod was killed by Walers. I get that. I get wanting to exterminate a species because one of them ate my kid. I imagine such instances is what often has caused predictors to go extinct in the first place...
@@7hi5on35 There is no realistic scenario where personal vendettas cause entire species to go extinct. They die out due to a combination of poaching and loss of habitat, not because of any other reasons. The most deadly endangered large predator is the lion at 100 kills _per year._ Even disregarding the fact that most of these deaths are illegal poachers, that's not enough angry families to seriously have an impact. And this is the most susceptible species I could find. You come across as condescending, rude and unwilling to educate yourself.
When I made my house in downtown Chiangmai,I bought 3 plots of land ,build my house in the middle and planted 300 trees all around with the result that now I have a green wall that gives shade,fresh air and is home to various birds,lizards,frogs,and is also visited by squirrels,bats,owls ,bees etc
One thing people forget is healthy forests grow in stages. In british columbia say a landslide happens and takes out all the trees on the side pf a mountain. The first thing that grows is not trees but bushes. This gives cover and protection for the new trees to grow. The first trees to grow are not the giant cedars and hemlocks though. Its fast growing alders. Which live betwen 60 tp 80 years. Then during that time the slow growing cedars and hemlocks start to grow. Later after the 80 years. The alders start to die and fall giving nutrients to the future giants. Thats how a healthy bc forest starts. When you start with planting the slow growing trees.most will die. And ypu will have to replant many
@@lilsolarpanel6696 water isnt the only thing plants need to survive, plants need food too (which comes from compost/decomposing matter like food) and some plants need more food than others like roses which despite their thorns, they can be delicate and need proper feeding, also soil plays a part as some plants prefer acidic, some prefer alkali soil, some prefer a balance Ecosia (if you don't know who they are look them up) never stresses enough of how important the soil is when looking at trying to help a waste land heal with the help of plants, including trees after all if you had a child you wouldnt exactly let it live on water (as that would kill the child, drinking too much water is like the equivalent of drowning), you'd give it food as well to make sure it grows up to be healthy and happy
@@silvergarcia9897 : You just have to come through a second time, a few years later, with the slower-growth species. It's quite doable, especially in these modern days of utility vehicles & GPS.
As a hunter and conservationist I am most interested in forests for the sustainable habitat of game species. I believe it is important to keep nature intact and separate from people as much as possible with the exception of legal hunting/fishing/camping and outdoors activities. For that reason, I am all for reforestation projects.
"seperate from people" says the hunter that however is not included in the group of people that should be seperated^^ how is hunting, fishing or whatever needed by the forest? Why would a fisherman still have the right to be in a forest but somebody that just likes walking in the wood, not? Sounds pretty selfish man
@@leonwust8713 Having people walking in a forest would generally make it into a park, which means it needs to be safe to the people, ie. killing the predators that can harm people. Hunters are just apex predators doing apex predator things, which is completely natural, as long as they don't over hunt. Also, separate from people would generally mean not having people developing in or near it, not completely exclude any human.
I think with the Great Green Wall, the goal was stopping the advance of the desert as quickly as possible, with efforts to increase biodiversity coming later.
@@Alex632 also every little bit helps. 99% of a trees mass comes from the carbon in the air. They actually made experimentd by weighing the soil a tree was growing in. And the soil weight change was minimal, while the tree grew massive.
@@carlosandleon Click on those three dots next to your first comment. Notice there is an option that says "Edit"? Click on that and copy/paste your last two comments into it. Congratulations, you now dont look like an angry boomer.
It’s nice to see you mentioned corridors. The Florida panther population has suffered greatly from lack of corridors so they can’t breed with more northern Alabama cats. On the other hand a local corridor has been approved recently by me to protect an entire river back from source to ocean.
Instructions unclear: accidentally made an interstellar intelligent species of trees that have migrating "seasons" and they go around solar systems feeding off of solar radiation
How to build forest:- Step 1: Gather some wood Step 2: The remaining leaves will disintegrate and some saplings should fall Step 3: Gather the saplings and plant it nearby Step 4: Repeat until it becomes forest
@@GinaAnasagasti teamtrees.org/ this is the link to donate and this many trees is equal to 10,000 regular forests or animal living habitats. Donate now🌄
Google adds a certain number of likes and dislikes to "fudge" vote counts on videos (Reddit does this on posts with upvotes/downvotes), so most of these dislikes probably aren't real.
It isn't a misclick. Some of us see this for the Marxist propaganda that it is. It seems innocent and caring, but in reality it's just Marxist jargon. But you'll just mock and let your ego get in the way of seeing that particular grain of truth.
Excellent video, as an arborist I cant thank you enough! Through mycorrhizal symbiosis, trees can connect to a network like system to add nutrients and minerals that they otherwise couldn't reach with their root system alone. Through this they also gain the ability to pass on nutrients to other trees that need them. Fungus is not plant, or animal animal and it manages the great forests of the world. Kinda similar to the internet it connects everybody in the forest and allows them to talk
Fungus is a woefully under-studied life form... Weirdest of all, it appears to be very similar to brain tissue and nervous systems. And not just for sake of the recreational varieties of fruit bodies. But actually as medicine... I believe its Lion's Mane that helps combat Dementia and Altimeters. A lot of those gourmet culinary fruit bodies, actual medicine that can heal the body. And honorable mention to that one giant mycelium in the North American plains region. Largest single organism on the planet most likely.
Dang, this is what I get from starting to write a comment before watching the entire video.... xD. Well, anyways, there's some more info here, so I'll just post it anyways. Here's something interesting that people might not know about. You don't even need to go very far from the Amazon forest to see effects of desertification. Right next to it, in the northeastern Brazil states, it's right there. Amazon rainforest is the most famous and known rainforest in Brazil, but we have another one called Atlantic rainforest. It used to stretch from the coast of northeast states all the way down to the southernmost brazilian states. The area in between both rainforests also used to be richer in biodiversity. Because of a mix of monoculture with coffee and sugarcane plantations, exploitation for wood, urban development, cattle grazing and some other stuff during the colonization era when there were more slaves than citizens in Brazil, huge huge swaths of the Atlantic forest got torn down, degraded down to poorer ecosystems, with some spots having the soil so depleted that they became deserts, particularly up north. During the colonization period the north and northeastern states in Brazil were the richest ones. Nowadays they are the poorest. Of course this has in part to do with an economy that started based on primary resource extraction and evolved towards urbanization, but it's compounded with the fact that centuries of exploration left northeastern states depleted of natural resources. And this is something very important to understand for those interested in what's happening in the Amazon forest, how things work in the north of Brazil, and how people should think when trying to help the region. There was a huge focus this year around our current president, blaming him for the fires, and polarizing the discussion around it. Fair enough, he certainly didn't help. I don't like the guy myself, nor his ideas, and much less the fires and deforestation that is happening in the Amazon forest. But... very big but here, deforestation in the Amazon is a problem as old as the country itself. Blaming a single president, no matter how much of an asshole he is, does not address the problem properly, and it is extremely unfair no matter how you swing it. It's a historically very poor region where lots of people are still living like they were in colonization times. Yes, there are big industries around farming and cattle in the region, very rich land owners exploiting protected areas illegally, a whole ton of poaching and exploitation. But this happens because of ignorance and poverty. If you think about it, even huge land owners would not be destroying their own land if they knew this was gonna ultimately lead to a land so depleted of resources it could become worthless in a generation's time. Now, despite the poverty of the region, it's also true that there are universities and organizations in the area with fairly advanced research in preservation and recovering parts of rainforest back. What governments of developed countries should do instead of outright cutting help funds and money for preservation efforts, is to find the right organizations to contribute to. Skip brazilian government entirely. Which is always a good idea because it's not from today that the brazilian government is absolutely corrupt too. It has been this way basically all the way back when it first became an independent nation, going through a corrupt military dictatorship, and then becoming a corrupt democracy. Quite honestly, as a brazilian, I have no hopes brazilian government will ever become an institution free of corruption. Opposite to the current polarized political scenario here and what most brazilians will shout about, I don't think either sides of the political spectrum will ever solve the problem with corruption here, simply because it's so deeply rooted and deeply ingrained in politics that it just cannot get any better. Corruption is institutionalized here. It's structural. Major parts of politics and institutions were build, are run and were formed around corrupt concepts from start. So it ends up in this situation. It doesn't really matter what government we end up with, whether you believe in it or not, if they promised to end corruption or not, what party they are coming from, etc etc. There is no perfect drop of perfume that can solve the stench of a pool filled with sewage. So, back again, the better way to preserve the Amazon rainforest and other parts of the country is injecting money directly in the places needed, helping local people who can make a difference by themselves. This is of course way more involved and way harder than just donating money directly to the government, but the government simply cannot be trusted, period. Sorry if I went off the rails on a rant too much here, but it needs to be said. The entire shitstorm in international press flinging shit against Bolsonaro and the current administration accomplished nothing. A breakdown in international relations perhaps. Less investment in the country, sure. Past corrupt and condemned administration feeling empowered enough to manipulate our justice system to get out of jail and try to be re-elected to power once again, most certainly. But in the end, it solves nothing. It just locks the country in the situation it already is. There is no order and no progress, just the same ol' banana republic state the country got too comfortable with, becoming complacent with it's own condition and going nowhere.
I'm impressed by your English and clarity of thought! Como brasileira, infelizmente é difícil encontrar conterrâneos com pensamentos parecidos, mesmo aqueles que vivem no exterior e fugiram do Brasil por causa de tanta corrupção e violência. Obrigada pelo comentário
@XSportSeeker Hey Brazilian dude with the long text, you are absolutely right. The government has huge responsibility for the rainforests in Brazil, which are literally the lungs of the Earth, but they don't give actual f*ck about it and the climate, they care only for money. I come from also a country in the Balkans called Bosnia, majority of it's land is covered with forests and there is even a huge rainforest quite unusual for a region so high above ( not equator ). And the government is also VERY corrupt. Just like in your country, but worser. They just grab money and harm the nature. It leads to a much worser situation, globally! People get poor and the only thing they ( we ) care is that our family freaking survives, the consequences are just forgotten. No wonder Friday for Future has started and I think more and more people should go out on the streets, because it is our only home, Earth.
@@neonlight1214 I agree, I am in America and I do know how evil Brazil is, but you should donate to teamtrees they help plant these forests back. Reply to me and I will show you the link to donate, or just go to a teamtrees video and click on one of their links. Goal is almost met🌄
Love the fact you used the metric system and said "changing this number to one that actually makes sense aka meters". Never subbed this hard in my life
Thx for the knowledge!! This is super awesome and super impactful. I am developing a biodiversity resilience project in Thailand and consulted with some biologists+watching your videos = I can connect the dots and be able to design a project starting with a right direction. ❤️
Great Channel!! Love your voice and the work done on this channel... One little factoid tho, where two habitats come together and you have "transition" zones. Those zone are actually the most productive in terms of resources, where say the land and sea met...it creates shoreline, full of crustaceans, small fish, tidal pools, etc.. There's a big push in the sustainable agriculture business to replicate these high resource areas where two other habitats meet.
@ I disagree... Forest can be built only because it is an object which consist of living things, but plants and animals cant be built, they are grown, because they are living things. Im not a native english speaker, but I think this makes sense... If anyone knows better let me know!😂
Thanks so much for this man. This is exactly the sort of thing we learn in my ecology coursework, and more people need to understand how this all works.
I live in the Arizona desert (Cave Creek) and planted 35 medium to large native trees after I built my house. I protected from the construction activities all native plants and relocated those I could as necessary. That was 8 years ago and I have an abundant amount of native birds including owls and ground dwelling animals of all desert species. Honoring the spirit of the native lands is never taught in schools. It’s no surprise that we are raising a national of non caring and non respectful young people. Caring is part of the quality of life yet eliminated by societal walks of life. Start caring today or be forced to live a life soiled by others.
You are an amazing creator , not only the content of these videos are educational and inspiring, but the clips/images you used to make them are truly beautiful. I am an artist working in film and game industry and I am helping the team to build a virtual world for our project currently, your channel provides a lot of useful knowledge we need,thanks a lot!I
I learned so much. I already contributed after crying my eyes out when the first wave of videos hit - but I honestly appreciate everything you're doing. 🌻🌲🌱🌳🌿🌳💚🌲🌳🌱🌿🌿🌱🌻
Hey, CZcams put you on my list and it was a hit. I've watched like 3 videos. This was super informative and fun. Makes me think of the Poconos here in Pennsylvania, already becoming a Woodland. It makes me think of that TedTalk about turning deserts into Grasslands (and how it didn't work)
Good call on the Atlantic Forest. Lots of potential for reforestation there, and conserving the remaining biodiversity corridors that remain in the Atlantic Forest.
As a city folk. I did push our city to project more city parks on abandoned properties, plan tree lined streets, and move people to plant smaller dwarf trees on potted planter for patios and balconies. It at least restores insect and bird life. Plus its at least a great visual for human peace of mind.
You can also do this in your yard. Plant edible perennial plants and place them in a way that mimics the forests. I started this in my yard and it works great. It all starts with the wood chips. They break down and feed the soil on a long-term basis. Woodchips also hold moisture. I have 15 fruit trees, blackberries, strawberries, and many more edible plants. It's called permaculture or permanent agriculture. If we had prisoners build food forests, we could possibly end hunger AND rebuild desert landscapes. It's easier to reforest when you don't have to water. It really starts with the woodchips. Mother nature likes to cover herself.
"20 million trees" *glances out my window into the endless expanse that is the Redwood Forest in North California* Well depending on what yah count as a tree, theres probably 20 million within a 5 mile area of me.
Hey Atlas, great video. Someone other than me has suggested it, and I would like to reverberate this suggest, please do a video about tropical dry forests. They're not taken seriously enough as a concept
Thank you for showing this great program that not only enriches me with scientific knowledge but the solutions to help preserve our motherland as a whole!
I make maple syrup here in Canada so my livlihood comes from the old growth forest outside of my door. Your point about apex predators is well taken. We have many coyote's and wolves and bears here and deer and moose too but I think that you are right about the importance of having a balance there. Dogs can certainly help when the others are absent. Also rotting trees do not turn into CO2 when they rot. They turn into mushrooms, worms, soil, other trees, roots stay in the ground...
Geologist here the gorests are carbon banks, not "green loungs" carbon is mainly removed from the biospheare and athmosphaere when deposited as calcium or oil shale in marine or coastal enviroments. More forest means less carbon in the air, yes, but a fixed amount of forests wount, over time, decrese Co2 levels. If you are interested google "carbon cycle" It is facinating Sry4 typos
@John Doe how long have they been doing that? Since they were legally required to...oh yeah. So its almost like they were on their way to cannibalizing themselves when the capitalist government saved them.
This was the best, and most informative video I saw from the whole campaign good job. Even though the wetlands are only effective in a long run. I would really love to see #teamwetlands next year.
A lot of the grass shown is Japanese stiltgrass which is invasive in the USA. It's hard to get rid of because it holds enough moisture to not burn and produces enough seeds to readily regrow. You basically have to keep coming back each year and ripping it out, including the roots, until the seeds stored in the soil are used up.
Good information. Please consider making a video on the ecological ramifications of property-line fences (the farming/ranching dominated areas of the western US offer the most dramatic examples of this that I am aware of, but it is also present in some other important ecosystems around the world and happens everywhere in the world someone has decided to place a fence). Discussing the changes that happened when the natural behavior of range species were first obstructed will be informative to all of us and will probably give some interesting ideas about potential management solutions for correcting issues from ecological cascade.
I'm starting my Masters in Environmental Science next week. I chose the track "Energy and Materials". This video got me all exited for the track "Environmental Change and Ecosystems" though!
Anoother wonderful video,I have been waiting for your video for a very long time,jsut a minute ago i clicked the bell button,and a minute later,its a notification from you. Cant wait to celebrate 1M with you.
My 10 H agroforestry farm in the Phillippines will naturally regenerate itself. I did ANR on upper slope part, planted other native species on island spots. The wind will disperse seeds in outlying areas. Fruit trees will invite pollinators, bats and other smaller animals to help fill up the area with their droppings. There is a 3/4 H for rice production. Happy forest building everyone!!!
A few months ago, i've seen some news that this idea of corridors is being implemented on São Paulo in Brazil, especially along river banks, which needs some trees to protect it and is not generally a profitable land for farmers.
This is interesting. When I built my house on 5 acres 20 years ago I planted over 500 trees. I used native trees..but lots of different varieties. Seeing this video makes me realize I accidentally did the right thing..cuz 20 years later my forest is awesome!
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Can you send me a before and after pic. I'm interested in seeing how much of an impact those 500 trees made on your 5 acres.
@@howardbaxter2514 sure...I'm not real computer savvy..I'm on a smart phone..do you have a text number? I can send pictures that way. Let me know..I'll make time to pull some out this week if you want.
@@terryf5131 let me see if I can message you directly
@@howardbaxter2514 Ok.
As a Forester, and leading a sum of reforestation project, I can verify that these information are correct. Thank you very much for a proper video about reforestation.
As someone who makes up shit on the internet for points, I can see that you are also a man of culture.
Hmmm really? Your a wanna be forester. Many of his info is incorrect and or missed important points.the video itself is important but every think how the trees are maintained and kept alive and I thought that there is more herbivores them so wouldn’t they be nearly all eaten. Just something to think about Mr “forester”.
@@emcanimations8442 LOL you think animals eat trees, not really and if they do then the animals are small
@@emcanimations8442 "And that's why you shouldn't do drugs kids."
@@emcanimations8442 "i hunt therefore im pro forest"
The conclusion I have made is that the more terrifying the forest, the healthier
I can't be the only person who thinks grass in forests are weird.
@@Willybean08 Forests come with fungi dominated soil, while grassland comes with bacterial dominated soil. They kind of exclude each other. Thats why fruit trees in a garden grow better with a tree pit and less good with lawn right onto the their stems.
@@Willybean08 HUH?
Come to my property. I practice a reduced version of Fukuoka natural farming. :) It is not terrifying, just chaotic. Nature is chaotic.
Meanwhile the conclusion I have made is if you eliminate all the apex predators in the system, humans can take their place instead... hunters get to hunt big game without harming the environment, sounds good to me
Millions of years later: “how to build a world”
I hope politicians die before that.
millions lol
Hmm very true
Step 1: take an uninhabited planet
Step 2: terraform the planet
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
how not to ruin a planet.
I'm a researcher in ecological modelling and I think it's so great that you're not only educating people but also doing it very very interstingly and scienticly correct.
I had the exact same thoughts on the team trees project but came to the same conclusion: Any (temporary) carbon sequestration effort is important! (Though maximizing effectiveness isn't certainly bad either :D)
The teamtrees project will plant equivelent to 10,000 regular forests or habitats for animals and resources. Here's a link if you want to help,
teamtrees.org/ and if you aready donated do it again because we are MORE THAN half way there!
I'm sure you already know that we would have to plant twice the amount of trees per day for a year just to sequester the amount of carbon the US generates. This amount triple to sequester the amount of carbon the rest of the planet generates.
This project is nothing more than a nice gesture but in no way should it be promoted that it will have any significant impact on the fight for climate change.
Watch this video for more info: czcams.com/video/N5UugtV06qw/video.html
@@mysteryguest9555 It's about encouragement and a new forest makes habitats for animals that despratlly need it. Not only that, but also foilage can cover up once dead masses of land like ashes or bad soil and make more plants grow in it. Our family has solar pannels and you don't, so shut up and try to make the future worth looking forward to!
@@alexh349 I'm sorry that you think that this will help solve the global warming problem, it won't. As you stated, it will provide other wonderful benefits but it won't do a damn thing about easing global warming. It's equivalent to trying to use a garden hose to put out a massive forest fire. It wouldn't be able to save a tree. So stop deluding yourself with this wishful thinking. This problem is massive and 20 million trees isn't going to make a dent, not even a tiny one.
@@mysteryguest9555 It would be nice to have many new forests or normal ones expanded. Also 20,000,000 trees is a lot and they will reporduce, not only that but also provide more foilage whitch is good and more plants can grow on good soil. It makes more habitats for animals and things can survive much better. It even sets a good example for the future, and will be youtubes first accomplishment.
I’m glad you made it late, I feel like everyone just forgot about the whole tree thing
It's called virtue signaling. People want you to tell them what great people they are. Once a cause becomes out of vogue, most quickly lose interest.
What tree thing? ..........
@Jim Eriksson mr beast tree thing
@@dougthedonkey1805 i know that, but it's gone, its no longer around, hince "what tree thing"
@Jim Eriksson oh I thought you just didn’t know lmao
Also, even though donations are no longer around, that doesn’t mean the project isn’t either. They still had to, you know, plant the trees
Meanwhile Finland plants 150 million trees each year alone.
Not saying TT is useless, I donated 25 trees to them 💜
Meanwhile Canada...
Clear-cutting huge areas of forests and then planting new timber stock onto the area isn't solving any climate problems, but is just as much at fault as burning fossil fuels. The forestry companies spend millions on PR to prove you otherwise...
@@SanSiim How is cutting down trees and then replanting them for timber bad for the climate? Aren't you still taking more and more carbon out of the athmosphere by doing this?
@@moralhazard8652 Most of the timber that is cut down will be burnt in a way or another within ~5 years max. Loads of wood goes into paper and cardboard production (like in Sweden and Finland for instance). The mono culture wood plantations are made just for the wood harvest and few animal species will find any living space in them. There is a big difference in forest and forest...
@@SanSiim what are you smoking 😂
This model is intresting.
However in places like here in the EU, even in locales where 70% of the land is covered by forests, its ALL managed forests. That are cut for wood then replanted. Apex predators were driven exctinct - by eradication programs in the middle ages, and early modern age - and are now slowly creeping back, and in regards to roads, well unpassable roads, like highways, are mandated to have elevated bridges covered with plants (instead of blacktop) to allow animals to pass through.
Was just about to mention that. Switzerland is exactly in your mentioned situation. Seems like we are years ahead of places like the US. And yet, as the wolve has returned in Switzerland. Many alpine farmers want to get rid of them again, whilst they are actually incredibly precious to the entire ecosystem of forests. Instead of giving the shepards dog that are specially trained to scare of wolves they want to shoot them. In Slovenia, all shepards have dogs that are larger than wolves and protect their sheep herds and so they face no losses whilst not killing any of the apex predators. They found a great solution. And yet, in Switzerland, politics don't even look beyond thr borders to see what other countries have achieved but instead try to work out their own useless solutions. Sometimes, I really feel like countries aren't able to look beyond the horizon for solutions. Instead, they stay focused on their own little place and try to re-invent the wheel. It's such wasted time. Also, we should be looking back at our ancestors, not even tgat far back, who knew how to live in harmony with the environment. But no, we need to find nee ways, whilst we could actually just look a few years back and see how we did things previously which in fact weren't that bad!
@@TWCHHK that escalated quickly...
Laughs in estonian and finnish
@@TWCHHK it's all fun and games until wolves start killing children again.
@@stefangrobbink7760 Sure buddy.
*Reconnecting the forest patches* is even more simple.
1m or 2m diameter pipe tunnel under the roads can connect the forest patches without making expensive bridges. Animals use such tunnel bridges, if there is a fence blocking the crossing of the road.
They will be scared because of the noise and the dark
@@markoj8140 well tunnels and more commonly bridges do work to
Many highways in Switzerland have that since years. Very easy way to allow wildlife to get from one forest to another.
Both methods work. Usually tunnels are cheaper, though you have to consider landscape and maintenance. Tunnels can get blocked, it can be hard to dig through rock, though it can be even harder to tunnel through mud without it filling. There are very capable specialists deciding which technique to use, the important thing for the rest of us is that we push to have forests connected regardless of connection method.
Great idea.
Atlas Pro: *makes a small typo*
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@@VFChannelArchive teamtrees.org/ to donate, like this comment no comments with links ever get liked😖
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@@alexh349 okay... I don't care...
2:50 "Translating that into a number that actually makes sense!" huaheuhauehuahu
Cities should incorporate these "corridors" into their park areas planning as well.
you're never going to get a thriving ecosystem in a city park, the area is way too small and too populated by humans for any sizeable animals to make their home, the biggest animals you could hope for are squirrels, which are already very common.
Excellent! As a forester in my masters, this is exceptionally accurate, smart and well explained!
Also the teamtrees project will plant equivelent to 10,000 regular sized forests or habitats for animals and resources. Here's a link if you are interested, teamtrees.org/
Have you heard about Africa's green wall? Do you think it will work. How would it work?
Thank you
Krat hi! I’m interested in reforestation, I’m an undergrad. What are some resources and considerations I should think of for transitioning into the workforce. I know that’s a vague question but any inspiration or not talked about key thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you!
@@maximilianjohandson3382 bamboo
@@Keallei We have pine tree saplingsassmall as a 1-centemerer one with a seed on top opened up. Trees should be able to block weeds from shade they make in mass quantities and they grow a bit every spring. Make shure they have good root room. Some trees can have a branch that comes out but achatches back to it's own stump one is at our house.
Team Trees, a name I haven't heard said by a CZcamsr in a while...
it's good that people get a reminder of the movement, but we need more people.
Fact: 20 million trees will only offset half a days worth of carbon emissions by the USA in it's lifetime.
Fact: 20 million trees is about 0.0007% of the world's trees.
It's not about stopping climatee change or reversing it. It's about showing that we want change. Go watch Mark Rober's vid and actually listen to his response to those tired old arguments about how it won't stop climate change.
And yeah, the donations have slowed a bit; but I bet Project for Awesome will see a large rush of donations to TeamTrees just in time to reach the goal by Christmas.
@@SylviaRustyFae It's a great cause but it's also a massive publicity stunt for Mr.Beast.
Planting trees to promote bio-diversity without paying attention to the soil in which those trees are planted is like having surgery without anti-biotics - It looks showy, but won't really solve the problem...
Forests take centuries, even millennium in some cases, to mature. We can of course help the process. But we would need an intergenerational plan, to do so.
First, you'd want to start with wild-flowers; which can grow in nutrient-poor soils which, as they die, enrich the soils with more complicated chemical compounds (nutrients).
Second, once the soil is sufficiently nutrient-rich, you would want to introduce what are known as 'pioneer species of trees. The most well-known of these to westerners are Birch trees. Similar to the wild-flowers, over a series of death-life cycles; an eco-system of various different kinds of fungi will have colonised the soil, feeding on the deadwood; which was left from the Birch. This fungi stage is important as many plants and large trees require the presence of Fungi to be healthy - with both fungi and trees interacting with one another in a complicated symbiosis.
Lastly, once the former is in place, Humans would have to take the place of apex predator - unless you want the occasional jogger or kid to get eaten, which is often the case in environments where the traditional apex predator hasn't been exterminated.
The exchange between fungi, plants and animals/humans is required for a healthy forest. Unless we don't care that anything we plant will most likely die within a few decades, then we require a healthy forest. Otherwise, we might as well not even bother doing anything...
@Cordon Vidger I like nature. But humans don't really want it, not really. For instance, I believe if there are people setterling in an area with man-eating predators, everyone should either carry a gun or wipe the preditor out. I find human life infinity more valuable. I think anyone who would disagree, would change their mind after loosing a family member to a predator.
So we don't want 'nature', we want a Zoo.
My second general point about conservationism, is that I'm not hopeful. Think about it this way; it's easier to break something then to build something. Surely we'd have to spend just as much, maybe even more, trying to repair the environment then has been spent breaking it. So the question is, how can we spend that kind of money on what amounts to an aestheticall preference? For conservationism to work it has to be as financially profitable as is the things which are destroying the environment.
That, or our wealth has to become completely detached from the environment. This is what had happened in Europe, for the most part. It's why "we're" so pro nature - nature is something exotic and romantisised to "us".
@@7hi5on35 removing the ability for apex predators to coexist with humans is much worse than the loss of a single human at a single point in time. I don't disagree with your first point about the value of life but shouldn't we also value the generational struggle by humans these predators have to go through because of their aggressive nature? if the answer he provided was for humans to become the apex predators you still disregard the life and future these species aren't being given. I believe a solution to this the careful protection and avocation for these species and where they live. It might sound like a potshot but is it irrational to say we could simply do the best for the forest and then leave it to thrive?
@@7hi5on35 People who have lost a family member to a predator will hate the fact that it happened to them, but they won't suddenly start hating nature. Someone who lost family to a car accident doesn't suddenly start hating ever car or every driver.
@@lowkey_Ioki You're funny. Maybe you're young. I can honestly say, without gilt, I'd rather a particular species go extinct then to loose either my wife or one of my kids.
I'd say you either lack such a person in your life or lack imagination. Maybe I'm weird and more selfish then most. I don't think I am though.
Noah and the Wale is based off a true story where a bull Wale would attack ships because his pod was killed by Walers. I get that. I get wanting to exterminate a species because one of them ate my kid. I imagine such instances is what often has caused predictors to go extinct in the first place...
@@7hi5on35 There is no realistic scenario where personal vendettas cause entire species to go extinct. They die out due to a combination of poaching and loss of habitat, not because of any other reasons.
The most deadly endangered large predator is the lion at 100 kills _per year._
Even disregarding the fact that most of these deaths are illegal poachers, that's not enough angry families to seriously have an impact. And this is the most susceptible species I could find.
You come across as condescending, rude and unwilling to educate yourself.
When I made my house in downtown Chiangmai,I bought 3 plots of land ,build my house in the middle and planted 300 trees all around with the result that now I have a green wall that gives shade,fresh air and is home to various birds,lizards,frogs,and is also visited by squirrels,bats,owls ,bees etc
wow that really cool!! Itt sound so nice there
I envy you.
If you reforest the bronx it might be called gen'tree'facation.
🌽 -y
Haha
One thing people forget is healthy forests grow in stages. In british columbia say a landslide happens and takes out all the trees on the side pf a mountain. The first thing that grows is not trees but bushes. This gives cover and protection for the new trees to grow. The first trees to grow are not the giant cedars and hemlocks though. Its fast growing alders. Which live betwen 60 tp 80 years. Then during that time the slow growing cedars and hemlocks start to grow. Later after the 80 years. The alders start to die and fall giving nutrients to the future giants. Thats how a healthy bc forest starts. When you start with planting the slow growing trees.most will die. And ypu will have to replant many
The thing is we don't have the time for that so we have to settle
Just add water
@@lilsolarpanel6696 water isnt the only thing plants need to survive, plants need food too (which comes from compost/decomposing matter like food) and some plants need more food than others like roses which despite their thorns, they can be delicate and need proper feeding, also soil plays a part as some plants prefer acidic, some prefer alkali soil, some prefer a balance
Ecosia (if you don't know who they are look them up) never stresses enough of how important the soil is when looking at trying to help a waste land heal with the help of plants, including trees
after all if you had a child you wouldnt exactly let it live on water (as that would kill the child, drinking too much water is like the equivalent of drowning), you'd give it food as well to make sure it grows up to be healthy and happy
@@silvergarcia9897 : You just have to come through a second time, a few years later, with the slower-growth species. It's quite doable, especially in these modern days of utility vehicles & GPS.
@@lilsolarpanel6696 where is the water come from?
As a hunter and conservationist I am most interested in forests for the sustainable habitat of game species. I believe it is important to keep nature intact and separate from people as much as possible with the exception of legal hunting/fishing/camping and outdoors activities. For that reason, I am all for reforestation projects.
"seperate from people" says the hunter that however is not included in the group of people that should be seperated^^ how is hunting, fishing or whatever needed by the forest? Why would a fisherman still have the right to be in a forest but somebody that just likes walking in the wood, not? Sounds pretty selfish man
@@leonwust8713 because it is what happened in natural cycles before we made up agriculture
@@leonwust8713 Having people walking in a forest would generally make it into a park, which means it needs to be safe to the people, ie. killing the predators that can harm people. Hunters are just apex predators doing apex predator things, which is completely natural, as long as they don't over hunt. Also, separate from people would generally mean not having people developing in or near it, not completely exclude any human.
I think with the Great Green Wall, the goal was stopping the advance of the desert as quickly as possible, with efforts to increase biodiversity coming later.
Really hope people in charge of planning afforestation efforts see this
there is nothing they can do to help, literally nothing. they know it would take 14.6 billion trees to offset just only Americas carbon emissions.
@@Alex632 it's not only about carbon emissions it's to minimize desertification and bringing back ecosystems.
@@Alex632 In fact you can completely ignore this effort in terms of carbon dioxide sequestration but it's not likt this effort doesn't help.
@@Alex632 also every little bit helps. 99% of a trees mass comes from the carbon in the air. They actually made experimentd by weighing the soil a tree was growing in. And the soil weight change was minimal, while the tree grew massive.
@@carlosandleon
Click on those three dots next to your first comment. Notice there is an option that says "Edit"? Click on that and copy/paste your last two comments into it.
Congratulations, you now dont look like an angry boomer.
Last time I was this early the Sahara was still green
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Don't you mean the Amazon?
kairon156 the Sahara used to be green
I was this late that Amazon Desert become a new destination for tourism
It’s nice to see you mentioned corridors. The Florida panther population has suffered greatly from lack of corridors so they can’t breed with more northern Alabama cats. On the other hand a local corridor has been approved recently by me to protect an entire river back from source to ocean.
Instructions unclear: accidentally made an interstellar intelligent species of trees that have migrating "seasons" and they go around solar systems feeding off of solar radiation
How to build forest:-
Step 1: Gather some wood
Step 2: The remaining leaves will disintegrate and some saplings should fall
Step 3: Gather the saplings and plant it nearby
Step 4: Repeat until it becomes forest
Don't forget to gather some cobblestone to craft an axe.
Stop
Bruh yu dumb?
No need to cut the wood, just start punching the leaves and it will drop saplings aswell
You forgot: bury the seeds, allow months of cold-wet stratification, followed by burning them. Then they become saplings.
@@Discordia5 woooosh
Here before anyone makes fun of the title. Guys chill. Even badasses like atlas make mistakes every now and then
czcams.com/video/FRPl5e9XJXI/video.html
this is the link to the other video he made for school he forgot to link it at the end
@@GinaAnasagasti teamtrees.org/ this is the link to donate and this many trees is equal to 10,000 regular forests or animal living habitats. Donate now🌄
08:08 - home to the majority of Brazil's population *shows footage of Tibidabo Church Barcelona*
my first thought was 'hang on, that looks a lot like bcn..' but hey, seen one christ on a hilltop, seen them all.
These verified and recommended channels will often do that.
Yeah. It makes no sense since there's a lot of footage of Rio de Janeiro.
I was getting worried, my minecraft gorlfriend chopped down all the trees around our house, but this really help us out. Thank you so much!!!
You’re not late, you’re right on time to renew the momentum !
Exactly!
I remember subbing to this channel a year or two ago when it had 12k subs. I’m glad it’s getting the attention it deserves
how could someone ever dislike this i hope it was an accidental click
Google adds a certain number of likes and dislikes to "fudge" vote counts on videos (Reddit does this on posts with upvotes/downvotes), so most of these dislikes probably aren't real.
It isn't a misclick. Some of us see this for the Marxist propaganda that it is. It seems innocent and caring, but in reality it's just Marxist jargon. But you'll just mock and let your ego get in the way of seeing that particular grain of truth.
@@rasputin7633 Marxist Jargon? I would argue that what you say Hitlerist Propaganda.
@@rasputin7633 Building and restoring forests is Marxist? I'm sure you will cite the pages of Das Kapital that support this "bold" claim
Excellent video, as an arborist I cant thank you enough! Through mycorrhizal symbiosis, trees can connect to a network like system to add nutrients and minerals that they otherwise couldn't reach with their root system alone. Through this they also gain the ability to pass on nutrients to other trees that need them. Fungus is not plant, or animal animal and it manages the great forests of the world. Kinda similar to the internet it connects everybody in the forest and allows them to talk
Fungus is a woefully under-studied life form... Weirdest of all, it appears to be very similar to brain tissue and nervous systems. And not just for sake of the recreational varieties of fruit bodies. But actually as medicine... I believe its Lion's Mane that helps combat Dementia and Altimeters. A lot of those gourmet culinary fruit bodies, actual medicine that can heal the body. And honorable mention to that one giant mycelium in the North American plains region. Largest single organism on the planet most likely.
I'm so early the title has a typo
Do you not built a forest
Same
@@jonathanlynch8089 Don't we all?
How do I built a forest?
For all the people who are late, Atlas mispelled build.
I built forests all the time! What are you talking about?
Dang, this is what I get from starting to write a comment before watching the entire video.... xD. Well, anyways, there's some more info here, so I'll just post it anyways.
Here's something interesting that people might not know about.
You don't even need to go very far from the Amazon forest to see effects of desertification. Right next to it, in the northeastern Brazil states, it's right there.
Amazon rainforest is the most famous and known rainforest in Brazil, but we have another one called Atlantic rainforest. It used to stretch from the coast of northeast states all the way down to the southernmost brazilian states. The area in between both rainforests also used to be richer in biodiversity.
Because of a mix of monoculture with coffee and sugarcane plantations, exploitation for wood, urban development, cattle grazing and some other stuff during the colonization era when there were more slaves than citizens in Brazil, huge huge swaths of the Atlantic forest got torn down, degraded down to poorer ecosystems, with some spots having the soil so depleted that they became deserts, particularly up north.
During the colonization period the north and northeastern states in Brazil were the richest ones. Nowadays they are the poorest. Of course this has in part to do with an economy that started based on primary resource extraction and evolved towards urbanization, but it's compounded with the fact that centuries of exploration left northeastern states depleted of natural resources.
And this is something very important to understand for those interested in what's happening in the Amazon forest, how things work in the north of Brazil, and how people should think when trying to help the region.
There was a huge focus this year around our current president, blaming him for the fires, and polarizing the discussion around it.
Fair enough, he certainly didn't help. I don't like the guy myself, nor his ideas, and much less the fires and deforestation that is happening in the Amazon forest.
But... very big but here, deforestation in the Amazon is a problem as old as the country itself. Blaming a single president, no matter how much of an asshole he is, does not address the problem properly, and it is extremely unfair no matter how you swing it. It's a historically very poor region where lots of people are still living like they were in colonization times. Yes, there are big industries around farming and cattle in the region, very rich land owners exploiting protected areas illegally, a whole ton of poaching and exploitation. But this happens because of ignorance and poverty. If you think about it, even huge land owners would not be destroying their own land if they knew this was gonna ultimately lead to a land so depleted of resources it could become worthless in a generation's time.
Now, despite the poverty of the region, it's also true that there are universities and organizations in the area with fairly advanced research in preservation and recovering parts of rainforest back. What governments of developed countries should do instead of outright cutting help funds and money for preservation efforts, is to find the right organizations to contribute to. Skip brazilian government entirely. Which is always a good idea because it's not from today that the brazilian government is absolutely corrupt too. It has been this way basically all the way back when it first became an independent nation, going through a corrupt military dictatorship, and then becoming a corrupt democracy.
Quite honestly, as a brazilian, I have no hopes brazilian government will ever become an institution free of corruption. Opposite to the current polarized political scenario here and what most brazilians will shout about, I don't think either sides of the political spectrum will ever solve the problem with corruption here, simply because it's so deeply rooted and deeply ingrained in politics that it just cannot get any better. Corruption is institutionalized here. It's structural. Major parts of politics and institutions were build, are run and were formed around corrupt concepts from start.
So it ends up in this situation. It doesn't really matter what government we end up with, whether you believe in it or not, if they promised to end corruption or not, what party they are coming from, etc etc. There is no perfect drop of perfume that can solve the stench of a pool filled with sewage.
So, back again, the better way to preserve the Amazon rainforest and other parts of the country is injecting money directly in the places needed, helping local people who can make a difference by themselves. This is of course way more involved and way harder than just donating money directly to the government, but the government simply cannot be trusted, period. Sorry if I went off the rails on a rant too much here, but it needs to be said. The entire shitstorm in international press flinging shit against Bolsonaro and the current administration accomplished nothing. A breakdown in international relations perhaps. Less investment in the country, sure. Past corrupt and condemned administration feeling empowered enough to manipulate our justice system to get out of jail and try to be re-elected to power once again, most certainly. But in the end, it solves nothing. It just locks the country in the situation it already is. There is no order and no progress, just the same ol' banana republic state the country got too comfortable with, becoming complacent with it's own condition and going nowhere.
I'm impressed by your English and clarity of thought! Como brasileira, infelizmente é difícil encontrar conterrâneos com pensamentos parecidos, mesmo aqueles que vivem no exterior e fugiram do Brasil por causa de tanta corrupção e violência. Obrigada pelo comentário
@@vanessasampaio13 help it is an attack
@XSportSeeker Hey Brazilian dude with the long text, you are absolutely right. The government has huge responsibility for the rainforests in Brazil, which are literally the lungs of the Earth, but they don't give actual f*ck about it and the climate, they care only for money.
I come from also a country in the Balkans called Bosnia, majority of it's land is covered with forests and there is even a huge rainforest quite unusual for a region so high above ( not equator ). And the government is also VERY corrupt. Just like in your country, but worser. They just grab money and harm the nature. It leads to a much worser situation, globally! People get poor and the only thing they ( we ) care is that our family freaking survives, the consequences are just forgotten. No wonder Friday for Future has started and I think more and more people should go out on the streets, because it is our only home, Earth.
@@neonlight1214 I agree, I am in America and I do know how evil Brazil is, but you should donate to teamtrees they help plant these forests back.
Reply to me and I will show you the link to donate, or just go to a teamtrees video and click on one of their links. Goal is almost met🌄
When Amazon rainforest go , so does Brazil.. Amazon River will dry up..and instead of forest you will have savanah and desert.
Love the fact you used the metric system and said "changing this number to one that actually makes sense aka meters".
Never subbed this hard in my life
Thx for the knowledge!! This is super awesome and super impactful. I am developing a biodiversity resilience project in Thailand and consulted with some biologists+watching your videos = I can connect the dots and be able to design a project starting with a right direction. ❤️
I love how one of the leaves that he used was his compass logo.
At first I was wondering if there is even a single tree in the world with leaves like this. Took me a while to realize.
Yea hahahahha
Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today!
so much nostalgia
Dude the editing is awesome to who ever did it. Really clear and made what this guy sound simple enough for me to understand. Props
Great Channel!! Love your voice and the work done on this channel...
One little factoid tho, where two habitats come together and you have "transition" zones.
Those zone are actually the most productive in terms of resources, where say the land and sea met...it creates shoreline, full of crustaceans, small fish, tidal pools, etc..
There's a big push in the sustainable agriculture business to replicate these high resource areas where two other habitats meet.
Saw all the comments saying that they studied forests and how accurate this video is made me sub. Thank you comments and CZcamsr 👍. Also great video
That was actually even more instructive than what I was expecting. Thank you!
This video is incredibly well researched to be on a general geography channel. Congratulations!
Wildlife corridors are such an excellent idea. We definitely need more.
"How to built a Forest"
I build this tree
Nirtrous i am builting a tree.
You built threes
Tree cant be built (it is grown), but forest can be built from different trees and animal species... Still sounds weird tho🤔
I was cut a tree with my hand, and the rest of the tree is floating
@ I disagree... Forest can be built only because it is an object which consist of living things, but plants and animals cant be built, they are grown, because they are living things.
Im not a native english speaker, but I think this makes sense... If anyone knows better let me know!😂
I’m glad you mentioned the two less spoken about rainforests.
"Translating this number into one that actually makes sense."
I love this channel!
A random dude: “So uh, how do we make a forest?”
Literally everyone: *looks over at MrBeast*
Wow! This is a very important video. I'll use this information in future, when I have the resources to build forests.
Thanks so much for this man. This is exactly the sort of thing we learn in my ecology coursework, and more people need to understand how this all works.
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I live in the Arizona desert (Cave Creek) and planted 35 medium to large native trees after I built my house. I protected from the construction activities all native plants and relocated those I could as necessary. That was 8 years ago and I have an abundant amount of native birds including owls and ground dwelling animals of all desert species. Honoring the spirit of the native lands is never taught in schools. It’s no surprise that we are raising a national of non caring and non respectful young people. Caring is part of the quality of life yet eliminated by societal walks of life. Start caring today or be forced to live a life soiled by others.
You are an amazing creator , not only the content of these videos are educational and inspiring, but the clips/images you used to make them are truly beautiful. I am an artist working in film and game industry and I am helping the team to build a virtual world for our project currently, your channel provides a lot of useful knowledge we need,thanks a lot!I
I learned so much. I already contributed after crying my eyes out when the first wave of videos hit - but I honestly appreciate everything you're doing.
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Hey, CZcams put you on my list and it was a hit. I've watched like 3 videos. This was super informative and fun. Makes me think of the Poconos here in Pennsylvania, already becoming a Woodland. It makes me think of that TedTalk about turning deserts into Grasslands (and how it didn't work)
Good call on the Atlantic Forest. Lots of potential for reforestation there, and conserving the remaining biodiversity corridors that remain in the Atlantic Forest.
As a city folk. I did push our city to project more city parks on abandoned properties, plan tree lined streets, and move people to plant smaller dwarf trees on potted planter for patios and balconies. It at least restores insect and bird life. Plus its at least a great visual for human peace of mind.
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Skeso2k that’s what he said
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Mr Beast know only how to waste money. Not planting tree's
Chappii06 GAMING he had a group plant 20M+ trees
"they're not, rather forests are collections of many different species"
Long Island and New Jersey: [laughs in Pine Barrens]
Michigan also was re-forested in basically all pines during the New Deal.
Peak Nonsense uk was too, but not that bad
You can also do this in your yard. Plant edible perennial plants and place them in a way that mimics the forests. I started this in my yard and it works great. It all starts with the wood chips. They break down and feed the soil on a long-term basis. Woodchips also hold moisture. I have 15 fruit trees, blackberries, strawberries, and many more edible plants. It's called permaculture or permanent agriculture. If we had prisoners build food forests, we could possibly end hunger AND rebuild desert landscapes. It's easier to reforest when you don't have to water. It really starts with the woodchips. Mother nature likes to cover herself.
This was absolutely fantastic. Loved it . Very educational in a very interesting way . 👊
"20 million trees" *glances out my window into the endless expanse that is the Redwood Forest in North California* Well depending on what yah count as a tree, theres probably 20 million within a 5 mile area of me.
Dude I swear seeing the Cali Redwood Forests has been a dream of mine for so long I wanna go there soooooooooooooo bad. You live the dream my dude
lucky you, in our region many forests are demolished for not-really effective bio-mass energy-plants.
@@nippelfritten2312 Star Wars Return of the Jedi filmed the Endor scenes there.
Hey Atlas, great video. Someone other than me has suggested it, and I would like to reverberate this suggest, please do a video about tropical dry forests. They're not taken seriously enough as a concept
Thank you for showing this great program that not only enriches me with scientific knowledge but the solutions to help preserve our motherland as a whole!
Very well informed. Thanks. We need more this kind of knowledge. 🙏
I make maple syrup here in Canada so my livlihood comes from the old growth forest outside of my door. Your point about apex predators is well taken. We have many coyote's and wolves and bears here and deer and moose too but I think that you are right about the importance of having a balance there. Dogs can certainly help when the others are absent. Also rotting trees do not turn into CO2 when they rot. They turn into mushrooms, worms, soil, other trees, roots stay in the ground...
Geologist here the gorests are carbon banks, not "green loungs" carbon is mainly removed from the biospheare and athmosphaere when deposited as calcium or oil shale in marine or coastal enviroments. More forest means less carbon in the air, yes, but a fixed amount of forests wount, over time, decrese Co2 levels.
If you are interested google "carbon cycle"
It is facinating
Sry4 typos
Rainforest: "I have survived multiple mass extinctions, have some respect"
Humans: "I gotta end this man's whole career!"
Sad
Look at the border between Bolivia and Brazil
i never thought i'd ever be that interested in a video where a guy talks about forest's for 10 minutes straight
Couldn't help but come back years later and watch it again.
Atlas pro: i found a way to save the world
Large corporation: *i dont see a profit in this lets do the opposite*
thats capitalism
@@-agrocupcake-1231 #communism
Boomers 👀
@John Doe no u
@John Doe how long have they been doing that? Since they were legally required to...oh yeah. So its almost like they were on their way to cannibalizing themselves when the capitalist government saved them.
This was the best, and most informative video I saw from the whole campaign good job. Even though the wetlands are only effective in a long run. I would really love to see #teamwetlands next year.
mangrove-forests are important to protect shores.
Yeah, this is actually your best video from the several I've watched.
A lot of the grass shown is Japanese stiltgrass which is invasive in the USA. It's hard to get rid of because it holds enough moisture to not burn and produces enough seeds to readily regrow. You basically have to keep coming back each year and ripping it out, including the roots, until the seeds stored in the soil are used up.
Where’d you get the stock footage at 9:08? I like it very much for some reason.
I love that this channel absolutely exploded in popularity
i love planting trees, seeing seedlings grow gives me so much satisfaction
i'm growing some avocado trees from the fruit!
Good information. Please consider making a video on the ecological ramifications of property-line fences (the farming/ranching dominated areas of the western US offer the most dramatic examples of this that I am aware of, but it is also present in some other important ecosystems around the world and happens everywhere in the world someone has decided to place a fence). Discussing the changes that happened when the natural behavior of range species were first obstructed will be informative to all of us and will probably give some interesting ideas about potential management solutions for correcting issues from ecological cascade.
Bibliography:
Wilson E.O. Et al Theory of Island Biogeography
Awesome video btw- I Hope mr beast sees this 💚💙💚💙
When you're so early the #teamtrees fad is still alive
IT WILL BE ALIVE UNTILL OT HAPPENS!
#TeamPeople
I'm starting my Masters in Environmental Science next week. I chose the track "Energy and Materials". This video got me all exited for the track "Environmental Change and Ecosystems" though!
What an absolute legend. What an amazing, accessible video. Very Dyslexia friendly, thank you 🙏🏻
you need atleast 10 or more stacks of saplings
And some bone meals, additionally
Anoother wonderful video,I have been waiting for your video for a very long time,jsut a minute ago i clicked the bell button,and a minute later,its a notification from you. Cant wait to celebrate 1M with you.
This was really educative. Thank you
The grate green wall was also used to cover up the arian burial mounds in the estern and western side.
Please reforest the Bronx, it would be a huge improvement
Ethiopia planned to plant 20 billion in 5 years
3:57 That is just an absolutely beautiful view with that one tree
Thank you for the informative video. I wish everybody would have this knowledge
"...Which, no, isn't enough to save the world"
Welp. I appreciate the honesty.
5:09 a forest in the shape of Australia?
Awesome to see you go to BU, I live just a few miles from there and will be going next year
My 10 H agroforestry farm in the Phillippines will naturally regenerate itself. I did ANR on upper slope part, planted other native species on island spots. The wind will disperse seeds in outlying areas. Fruit trees will invite pollinators, bats and other smaller animals to help fill up the area with their droppings. There is a 3/4 H for rice production. Happy forest building everyone!!!
Was just about to comment about not using the metric system but you saved yourself at the last second
Imperial >= Metric
@@benheinz8817 Metric > imperial
0:30 Forests are much, much more than the trees. They're an entire ecosystem.
Forest: exists
People: I can deforest you.
Yooo this needs to get on TV or like taught by teachers cause other people need to know this before its too late.
Step 1 : Stop destroying them
Step 2 : destroy half the population of humans
@@luismedina5792 Starting with you.
Logging company's plant more trees in a single hour than this team trees meme will ever plant.
@Luis Medina Why are you some kinda Thanos reincarnation?
@@TheBUGZNTA How many people here has planted anything before team trees showed up?
Last time I was this early the Amazon Rainforest was just builting
Last time i was this early Barcelona was not in the Atlantic rainforest
I realy like your video's. It feels like you realy did the effort of finding out how some stuf works. And you have a nice way of drawing conlusions.
A few months ago, i've seen some news that this idea of corridors is being implemented on São Paulo in Brazil, especially along river banks, which needs some trees to protect it and is not generally a profitable land for farmers.