Iceland Is Growing New Forests for the First Time in 1,000 Years | Short Film Showcase
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Channel: National Geographic
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Length: 5min 22sec (322 seconds)
Published: Sat Jan 13 2018
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Icelander here, the movement to plant more trees has been going for quite a while now and most children plant a tree or two when they are in elementary school.
The thing is that we can't really use the valleys/flatlands because we need them for farms. Instead we plant the trees at the roots of mountains and up the mountainside (as high up as they survive).
It's unlikely that we can plant them in the desert of the highlands without pretty extreme all-year-round care but the forests are growing bigger and huge areas where there were no trees will be forests after 10-20 years and that makes me happy.
I'm only about 20 years old but there is a clear difference in treegrowth through my lifetime.
How cool is that!
"I want to build a Pagan church, can you help us? Well, yes we can."
The forests are back, and so is Thor!
Reminds me of the last inhabitants of St Kilda. They'd never seen trees before because there had never been any on the island, then in the 30s when they were evacuated to the Scottish mainland they were given jobs in the forestry commission.
Interesting
Trees, they sure need them over there