Regreening the desert with John D. Liu - Docu - 2012

I'm not even talking about ten years ago, but about how things were five years ago: Things were really horrible here five years ago. The drought, the heat, the wind. The withered soil was simply blown away. They set up a programme so that we could move to a different area. The land has become fertile again. There have been enormous improvements. Our fruit trees were shrivelled up, but now they're growing again. There's even a larger number of species. Those are really positive results. We now have food security. Our children can go to school. We have a better life. We no longer need to ask the government for support... ...thanks to the changes that were implemented. Wild animals that had disappeared have returned. Even the leopard. I'm from that area. Will he come tomorrow? - Tomorrow, yes. The people didn't understand the project. They didn't see why it was needed. They want us to plant trees everywhere. Even on the good land. Even there. Well, how about the next generation? You can't eat trees. The objective was to give the hills a 'hat' on top... ...a 'belt' in the middle and 'shoes' at the bottom. The trees planted on the hilltop form the hat. The terraces form the belt. And a constructed dam forms the shoes. That way everything can grow again... ...and the economy and our lives will improve. You have to trim them at the top and then put them around the saplings.

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Keywords: Sustainability, ecofriendly, fight climate change, sustainable living, restore biodiversity, ecosystem protection, ecosystem restoration, regreening deserts, global warming, John D. Liu, soil erosion, Geoff Lawton, Princess Basma bint Ali, Backlight Sustainability, Sustainability documentary, documentary, vpro documentary, vpro documentaries, vpro backlight, Free documentary, subtitled documentary, documentary subtitles, docu

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Length: 47min 31sec (2851 seconds)

Published: Sun May 07 2017