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Thompson Reuters Foundation: Mangrove-Planting Drones on a Mission to Restore Myanmar Delta

8/28/2017

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"Fast-dwindling mangroves in Myanmar's low-lying Ayeyarwady Delta, ravaged by decades of deforestation and conversion of land for agriculture and aquaculture, could find an unlikely saviour - drones.

Mangroves protect coastlines in the face of storms and rising sea levels, absorb carbon from the atmosphere, and boost fish stocks, experts say.

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Yet Myanmar has lost more than 1 million hectares (about 2.5 million acres) of mangroves..."
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Fast Company: These Tree-Planting Drones Are About To Start An Entire Forest From The Sky

8/21/2017

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"For the past five years, a group of villagers in the delta of the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar has painstakingly planted 2.7 million mangrove trees in an attempt to begin to restore an ecosystem that has been disappearing for decades. But the work is laborious, and the local nonprofit guiding the work wants to cover a much larger area–so they’re now turning to tree-planting drones.

The drones, from the startup BioCarbon Engineering, can plant as many as 100,000 trees in a single day, leaving the local community to focus on..."

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