Dude single handedly plants 1360 Acre Forest

Rucking_Fetard

http://www.thebetterindia.com/10904/jadav-molai-payeng-forest-man-india/

Almost three decades ago, a teenager, after noticing the deaths of a large number of reptiles due to a lack of a tree cover, started planting Bamboo in an area that had been washed away by floods. Today, that same land hosts 1,360 acres of Jungle called Molai Forest, named after Jadav “Molai” Payeng, the man who made this possible single handedly!

That forest is now home to Bengal tigers, Indian rhinoceros, over 100 deer and rabbits besides apes and several varieties of birds, including a large number of vultures. There are several thousand trees. Bamboo covers an area of over 300 hectares. A herd of around 100 elephants regularly visits the forest every year and generally stays for around six months. They have given birth to 10 calves in the forest in recent years.

periodictable

And think of all those little corners, gullies and headlands on Irish farms, if they were planted with rowan, hazel, oak, holly, etc, the multitude of benefits that would accrue to the farmer and wildlife.
Little by little does the trick.

crackcrack30

Was only wondering yesterday why the sides of our motorways arn't planted with a percentage of fruit trees, there must be thousands of acres that would be a haven for small birds bees ect.

cerastes

periodictable wrote: »

And think of all those little corners, gullies and headlands on Irish farms, if they were planted with rowan, hazel, oak, holly, etc, the multitude of benefits that would accrue to the farmer and wildlife.
Little by little does the trick.

It should be promoted, but Id say they either dont have the time, ineterest or there is nothing in it for them, maybe even problems if its considered to harbour vermin.

crackcrack30 wrote: »

Was only wondering yesterday why the sides of our motorways arn't planted with a percentage of fruit trees, there must be thousands of acres that would be a haven for small birds bees ect.

This might be a better idea, you'd be dealing with one group, although people might say it increases the chance of accidents if rabbits and badgers were in habitation at the side of the road and then wandering around crossing the motorway, maybe a low wire fence, although those bordering the motorway would probably object.

fair play to the guy, although a lot for one person, a few square km's, if govts got organised that could be done every month in large numbers of places, clean clear and revive, then abandon it from people.

periodictable

crackcrack30 wrote: »

Was only wondering yesterday why the sides of our motorways arn't planted with a percentage of fruit trees, there must be thousands of acres that would be a haven for small birds bees ect.

You only have to look at the quality of planting to realize that the people doing the job have little or no idea of what they are doing.
The soil, if any, on the side of a motorway is often subsoil, so the trees ought to be pioneer trees-nitrogen fixers,like alder,and smaller trees with a low nutrient demand like birch, hazel and rowan. Instead we get pines-inherently unstable unless naturally regenerated on the site-and trees which are going to be too big.
Occasionally you get some great planting-the Stillorgan dual carriageway being a case in point.

Oldtree

never ceases to amaze me the trees that are planted on motorway embankments (or adjacent to motorways), clearly the designers of such plantings have no idea how big these things are going to get or the future hazard they represent on a man made embankment. Its always about the right tree in the right place. Its not like they even have a plan in place to remove at such n such a height and replace?