The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity | Thomas Crowther

The global movement to restore nature's biodiversity | Thomas Crowther

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Biodiversity is the key to life on Earth and reviving our damaged planet, says ecologist Thomas Crowther. Sharing the inside story of his headline-making research on reforestation, which led to the UN’s viral Trillion Trees Campaign, Crowther introduces Restor: an expansive, informative platform built to enable anyone, anywhere to help restore the biodiversity of Earth’s ecosystems.

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25 Comments

  1. Planting trees is not sufficient. We already have extensive landscapes of sterile tree farms. We need to plant forests that established and maintain whole communities of species that interact to create a larger whole. Planting a forest requires a great deal more than merely planting trees.

  2. Maybe we could start by having developers and politicians to stop clear cutting all over America. I live outside Georgia and the stupid politicians are out of control.

  3. Yeah but do we have enough time? Probably not! What if they are just greenwashing all of this like Brazil. Most big companies are greenwashing their products. WE NEED PROOF IF YOU ARE TRULY GOING TO DO THIS

  4. stopping the human population increase via choosing to not have 2 kids or less is logically the best way of limiting the depletion of natural resources/reducing emissions. All other means just postpone the environmental catastrophy that awaits an earth of 15/20/30 billion people, each wanting to have a place to live, clothes to wear, food to eat and energy to consume.

  5. Exactly! Let’s increase forestry in urban areas and reduce population! I guess s this is already being implemented thanks to leading global activists and charitable international an US organisations!

  6. All that network expert to bring all kinds of solutions is no more than a way to corporate everything and then get even our air for sale.

    I don't buy it.

    Stop the solutions that later absorb our own existence. Leave it decentralized.

  7. Everything he said about the importance of restoring not only trees, but a natural ecosystem that includes trees begs the question- "Why are we destroying these rich old growth forests?" For a hamburger? For the brief taste of other animal products?
    "While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident.
    The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist pro-business president, who is backed by the country’s so-called “beef caucus.”
    While this may be business as usual for Brazil’s beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror.

    So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as “the planet’s lungs” for producing about 20% of the world’s oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat."- CNN

    Another reason they burn the Amazon is to grow soy. "More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh." -Our World in Data

  8. I know the nature how reacts and difference between soil and sand as well biodivervity of plants trees potential of trees in our lives and I'm pact on huan beings and Animals .. ??

  9. Curious about these opposing forces that provides continuity in Nature. Although there is a great wealth of educational resources about this topic, most of them just deals on the superficial aspects and not it's essence. Thank you for sharing this wonderful and thought provoking content.