Posted on 12/31/2025 9:26:42 AM PST by Eleutheria5
...awakening ancient roots, recovering water resources, restoring 43 hectares, and transforming dead lands into living ecosystems recognized by the UN.
In the region most affected by drought, communities in Ethiopia are regenerating entire forests without machinery, seedlings, or virtually any money, simply by awakening ancient roots hidden beneath the soil and changing the way they use the land day after day. These communities in Ethiopia take areas considered dead land, devoid of vegetation and water, and transform them into hillsides covered with trees, shrubs, and crops, where streams flow again and the soil stops cracking. In just a few years, They regenerate entire forests across approximately 43 hectares., creating living ecosystems that attract the attention of the UN and enter the global radar as concrete proof that restoring degraded landscapes is possible with local knowledge, organization, and a lot of persistence.
The first breakthrough is mental. Instead of imagining trucks carrying seedlings everywhere, the communities of Ethiopia start from a simple truth: that seemingly dry hill is not completely dead.
Beneath the hardened surface lie ancient roots, seeds, and dormant sprouts—remnants of an underground forest waiting for a chance to breathe again.
When rain falls on bare, compacted soil, the water runs off too quickly, carrying away sediment and disappearing in a few minutes.
With the management practices these communities adopt, the objective is the opposite: to hold the water in place for longerBreaking the hard crust of the soil allows moisture to seep deep into the soil, exactly where ancestral roots can reach.
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Start another civil war. This is intolerable.
43 Hectares = 106 Acres..............
Good for Ethiopia. A big reason for the African famines was deforestation that resulted in soil erosion and land that had no productive value. If they get these habitats back to their natural state, it will result in healthy, productive land again. And more so than a lot of African countries, Ethiopia seems to be able to handle problems on its own. It has its issues but seems like much less of a basket case than a lot of African failed states.
Thank God the government wasn’t behind this or the land would be ruined beyond repair.
And now that it’s attracted the UN’s attention, watch the UN destroy it.
Fertilized by human poop
Most of the problem with deserts is that the water that falls does absorb into the earth.
This happens even in wetter climates when you have had long hot months with little rain.
Nitwit.
Learn to proofread.
And to be fair to Ethiopia (or anyone else) having farming or forestation problems centuries ago, remember that it's especially hard to grow plants during the centuries long cooling periods. Most notably the relatively recent Little Ice Age (roughly AD 1300 to 1800's). Kbr>
During those centuries Africa had mega-droughts. Europe had to switch from a cereal based diet to potatoes. The settlers here in America often starved to death or froze to death.
In one pic in the link, I counted 10 wind turbines for power generation.
“””They regenerate entire forests across approximately 43 hectares.”””
Yup. My concept of “entire forests” is a bit more than 106 acres.
It’s a start. Would you rather they:
1) Employ primitive, highly labor intensive methods with their own meager resources to start rebuilding their country.
or
2) Squat in squalor, blubbering and whining about their lousy lot in life and demanding that Big White Bwana from over the sea rescue them ... and then hate him for doing it.
It’s Africa.
Those are the choices.
There’ll be a civil war and mass slaughter, and ruined agriculture under communism. Just watch. This is the UN’s specialty.
That’s Christopher Robbins’ idea of a forest. If it’s good enough for a cute British kid with stuffed animals running around, it’s good enough for Ethiopia as a paradigm of what’s possible.
Great project by the Ethiopians. Very commendable. Working to do their part to make their country and the world a little better.
Ethiopia is a majority Christian country, not Muslim, so That may be part of the reason...............
I’ve had an Ethiopian roommate.
These are not people apt to do 2)
We knew what you meant and simply inserted the missing “not”...
Which explains why the residents of at least one village have gotten their stuff together and are doing (1).
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