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Reforestation Isn’t Hard Work
How we can regrow the Amazon and other rainforests
I’ve seen a lot of posts, around the internet, Facebook, things like that outright saying “the Amazon is burning — we can’t get it back — all hope is lost.”
The rainforest is burning. Trees, plants, animals — are all dead or dying.
Once those things are dead, they can’t come back. But it is possible, and there are many stories of people who have successfully brought back green, lush life into barren places, created oases in deserts — all in relatively short periods.
Today, I want to talk about some cases where people were able to recover land that was considered desolate and hopeless in one generation.
New Zealand’s Banks Penninsula
This story talks about a man named Hugh Wilson in New Zealand. He oversees 1500 Hectares (about 6 square miles) of what was once basically crappy farmland, now a nature preserve called Hinewai.
