> working on climate: removing CO2 from the atmosphere is critical to overcoming the climate crisis, and the restoration of forests is one of the BEST ways to do that.
As a tangent, Akira Miyawaki has developed a method for 'reconstitution of "indigenous forests by indigenous trees"' which "produces rich, dense and efficient protective pioneer forests in 20 to 30 years"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki#Method_and_cond...
It's worth quoting in full:
> Rigorous initial site survey and research of potential natural vegetation
> Identification and collection of a large number of various native seeds, locally or nearby and in a comparable geo-climatic context
> Germination in a nursery (which requires additional maintenance for some species; for example, those that germinate only after passing through the digestive tract of a certain animal, need a particular symbiotic fungus, or a cold induced dorming phase)
> Preparation of the substrate if it is very degraded, such as the addition of organic matter or mulch, and, in areas with heavy or torrential rainfall, planting mounds for taproot species that require a well-drained soil surface. Hill slopes can be planted with more ubiquitous surface roots species, such as cedar, Japanese cypress, and pine.
> Plantations respecting biodiversity inspired by the model of the natural forest. A dense plantation of very young seedlings (but with an already mature root system: with symbiotic bacteria and fungi present) is recommended. Density aims at stirring competition between species and the onset of phytosociological relations close to what would happen in nature (three to five plants per square metre in the temperate zone, up to five or ten seedlings per square metre in Borneo).
> Plantations randomly distributed in space in the way plants are distributed in a clearing or at the edge of the natural forest, not in rows or staggered.