BioCarbon Engineering wants to use drones for good, using the technology to seed up to one billion trees a year, all without having to set foot on the ground. 26 billion trees are currently being burned down every year while only 15 billion are replanted. If successful, the initiative could help address this shortfall in a big way. Drones should streamline reforestation considerably, with hand-planting being slow and expensive. According to BioCarbon CEO and former Nasa-engineer Lauren Fletcher, the only way we're going to take on these age-old problems is with techniques that weren't available to us before. By using this approach we can meet the scale of the problem out there. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...llion-trees-a-year-using-drones-10160588.html
In the boreal and montane forests of North America, reseeding is unnecessary - there are plenty of seeds waiting to be released by fire.
A good use of drones. Iceaura has a point, in northern Europe the situation is similar, if an area is left undisturbed, trees will start growing there within a year or two, since there are enough adult trees to supply seeds and wind, birds and other animals help spreading them. Each year I have to remove a dozen or more acorns, oaks, birches and other trees from my garden which started growing. But for other areas where tree seeds are scarse, or just no adult trees around at all anymore, the drones should be a very good way to replant forests quickly.
