Planting Great Green Walls in an attempt to restore dry land has become a continental effort, led by governments and NGOs in both Africa and China. Now India has ambitious plans to do the same. But planting and sustaining millions of trees in water scare locations is a huge and complicated undertaking. To regenerate plant life at scale, what can India do differently?
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Credits:
Reporter: Amelia Martyn-Hemphill
Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann & Michael Trobridge
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
Interviewees:
Neelam Ahluwalia, Aravalli Bachao Citizens Movement
Chetan Aggarwal, environmental analyst
Joseph Faluyi, COO and Executive Director of the Great Green Wall of Africa Foundation
George Taylor, desertification expert, University of Colorado
Latika Thukral, I am Gurgaon
Read more:
https://science.thewire.in/environment/abandon-the-idea-of-great-green-walls/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/19/the-great-oasis
https://www.outdoorjournal.com/in/uncategorized/aravalli-forest-range-degraded-zone-india/
https://aravallibachao.wordpress.com/
https://www.iamgurgaon.org/
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1910745
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-green-wall-stop-desertification-not-so-much-180960171/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
0:48 The advancing Thar desert
1:43 Causes of land degradation in India
4:00 India’s Great Green Wall
4:28 Examples from Africa and China
6:23 Is this a good idea for India?
8.55 Citizen movements achieving success
10:42 What needs to be done to save the Aravallis?
