Um. If the goal is to fix the environmental issues, wouldn't it be better to ask the local indigenous folk what the forest should look like? A monoculture of fruit trees isn't going to help the local flora and fauna recover. I'm fact, it will probably make the environmental issues worse.
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ask the local indigenous folk
Who do you think is cutting down the forest in the first place to graze cows and plant cash crops?
a monoculture of fruit trees
That isn't what this project is doing. They even state that monoculture farming is bullshit and suggest natural regeneration ("Laissez-Faire") as one of the reforestation methods.
it will probably make the environmental issues worse
Worse than grazing cows?
I don’t know the specifics of this local area but usually it’s not the indigenous people driving deforestation in the Amazon. Not to say it couldn’t be in this case but I definitely wouldn’t assume that.
That said, I still like the idea of this project even if it’s a little unconventional. We may need unconventional ideas in this era of ecological collapse.
Maybe if I need to escape the gestapo I’ll join on lol
Amazon Restore is a great name! By looking around in their website it seemed to me like an interesting project.
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to find out who they are, or at least how they organise, and how they get money for this effort. If you have better luck on these topics, please share the links.
From what I understand, the people doing the thing fund it themselves. It seems like each parcel of land is managed independently, but I don't know to what degree they coordinate between the different lands. They have an email address on the Contact page, so you can ask whatever you want to know.
We need more people starting or joining projects like this! Having no corporate sponsors and no government funding are especially important with all of the corruption involved in "carbon credit" projects and government funding being cut off or contingent on a bunch of bureaucracy. Independent restoration efforts controlled by the people living in the area just make more sense. Less conflicts of interest. If even a small percentage of the population did this, it could make a huge difference.