Places for afforestation
The goal of the Ecological Afforestation Project is to help people. We help people who are losing the fertility of their lands due to desertification. We approach this problem in such a way as to solve it forever. We select areas of degraded, abandoned land and begin to turn it into a forest.
Many charity organisations are planting trees where they used to be. It is very important to rehabilitate forests where they have been cleared for sawn timber. However, it is the environmental responsibility of those who cut down the trees and made profit. It must be economically justified not only to cut down, remove and process wood, but also to restore the forest at the used place.
Huge areas of forest are destroyed in order to use the territory for agricultural purposes. Reforestation in such lands guarantees that some people will be left without food. This can lead to conflicts. There are already modern examples of what happens when people who were dependent on crops lose the agricultural value of their land and are left without food.
For example, in Africa, the Sahara Desert is expanding to the south by 6-10 kilometers annually, taking the land of pastoralists and farmers. As a result, people are forced to move south, creating overpopulation. Many refugees decide to go north and get to Europe. This also creates a number of problems in European countries.
One of the missions of the Ecological Afforestation Project is to help people who are losing the fertility of their lands due to desertification. We approach this problem in such a way as to solve it forever. We select tracts of degraded, deserted land and begin to turn it into a forest. The local population is involved in this work, while simultaneously learning new, environmentally friendly land use methods. The forests we create in areas of degraded agriculture help restore the ability of adjacent lands to yield again. In addition, we work with local farmers to convince them to apply agroforestry.
However, there are also natural factors influencing the selection of the location for the new Ecological Afforestation Project forest. With sufficient power, the forest itself is capable of creating rain. But for this, its edge must be close enough to the ocean.
At first, trees receive a small amount of water evaporated by the ocean in the form of rain. Then the foliage actively fills the air with moisture and this attracts even more vapor from the ocean. A chain reaction is triggered that sends rain clouds inland.
We try to design forests so that they are sustainable and able to use any amount of rainfall to the maximum benefit for ourselves and the surrounding area. In such places, forests can transfer moisture deeper to the continent. This will allow new forests to be created there.
We are currently considering the following places on our planet for afforestation. These are the north of Western Australia, Namibia in South Africa and Mauritania in West Africa.
Afforestation in Mauritania
Huge areas of the Sahara desert remain uninhabited because they cannot feed and provide jobs for even a small number of people. The afforestation of the coastal sands south of the city of Nouakchott to the Senegal River may be the basis for the formation of forests inland.
The Ecological Afforestation Project can function and develop only with financial resources, so any support for our activities changes our relationship with nature and prolongs the comfortable life of all creatures in the atmosphere of our planet. We, in turn, do our job so that not a single dollar donated for the restoration and creation of the forest is wasted.
