Ethiopia
is a poor country, yet last year the government of Ethiopia organised
a huge conservation programme . In just one day the people of
Ethiopia planted 350 million trees. It was an amazing achievement to
plant millions of trees to fight de-forestation and climate change.
However in the environmental world things which seem great often have
a dark side. This work was carried out with money supplied by
western Governments, to plant trees at a low cost as a high impact
solution to climate change, because trees have enormous potential to
soak up and store carbon. Ethiopia was just one of forty third world
nations who signed up to initiatives like the Bonn Challenge whose
aim is to restore 350 million Hectares of degraded and deforested
land by 2030. The forty nations who signed up all received payments
to plant the trees. Now here's the problem 80% of the trees planted
by these country's are either in a plantation full of one species or
in a limited number of trees, that produce fruit or rubber. In Chile
for example Landowners ripped up and cut down forests full of native
trees replaced them with new tree plantations because of the tax cuts
and grants being given out by the UN and Western Governments. Native
forests full of different species and trees of old age are rich in
biodiversity and store much more carbon then newly planted forests.
its mind boggling that millions of pounds of aid to fight de
forestation is being wasted because no one in charge of handing out
the grants understands this. So my
point is it is better to preserve our old forests then plant a new
one, if we are serious about stopping pollution .
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