Funny how deforestation machinery can run at catastrophic scale and speed, but replanting trees is still largely done by hand and shovel. An Ontario-based start-up aims to improve this equation using new drone technology. Good idea. See First drone project of its kind planning to plant a billion trees by 2028:
While this is not the world’s first drone-headed reforestation project, Flash Forest advisor Angelique Ahlstrom told Good News Network in an email that their startup is the first of its kind in Canada.
“Our goals are to have a significant and measurable impact on mitigating climate change in the next decade, while combatting deforestation and biodiversity loss on a global scale,” wrote Ahlstrom. “Using this technology, we aim to plant at least 1 billion trees by the year 2028.
“We feel we are one of the only ways that the federal government will be able to fulfill its pledge to plant 2 billion trees in the next ten years,” she added.
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