Revegetating Iceland in a Warmer Climate
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2017
- Iceland has lost over one-third of its plant cover since settlement, making the soils more vulnerable to wind and rain erosion. With a warmer climate, revegetation efforts may take positive turn, but at what cost?
Please make more videos from Iceland and do follow up stories....love to see the progress of reforestation over there..:-))
I so want to move to Iceland to work for the Conservation Service!!!! Awesome work you folks are doing!
What a great project to be involved in
Keep up the good work Iceland can have its great forests return
Those extremes , a barren landscape and green, forested one was amazing to see! Iceland has such tiny population and such vast, vast land. They should all contribute to reforestation...do tree planting weekends..:-))) if it all was forested , it would become piece of paradise....and imagine the wildlife they could have! small and medium sizes....:-))) and birds....just wow!
From your video I notice that there doesn't seem to be any vegetative boundaries surrounding grazing fields. In cooperation with farmers, why not encourage tree planting that can eventually become managed fences as happens in the UK. They're great for biodiversity, carbon capture & wind breaks for livestock in addition to all of the other benefits mentioned in the video. Perhaps, where applicable, these living fences can also form contiguous wildlife corridors between the main reforestation projects.
Well done, Viva La Vegetation!!!
Bring back the trees
Keep planting the most native plants that were there pre-Vikings. Or the plants that can survive colder climates.
Yes plant trees , more trees
When I visited Iceland 30 years ago, the 'forests' were scanty, 6ft high Birches located at a fair distance from the capital. During a sightseeing tour, I could easily see right over the top of them from the coach. Often I saw wind-dessicated areas and damaged land. That was actually very alarming (especially as I'm gardener).
So I'm delighted to see the vast progress made since that time. Don't anyone be too concerned about losing species as the planet warms, just shift direction, try new (non-invasive) species, keep going and don't stop. All us gardeners and conservationists are having to do the same around the world.
I'm here in Scotland and successfully growing a New Mexican species of pine and Australian Eucalyptus (among others) - whilst some of our natives are sometimes being scorched by the hotter, fiercer Spring/Summer sunshine. Just have to move on, adapt and we'll win in the end, eventually turning back to our native species once more.
Wouldn't the warming up issue get solved once the woodland starts chilling the atmosphere more?
Trees create shade, making the soil underneath colder (because there's less sunlight reaching it) and more wet, this humidity is absorbed by the trees, that's later ejected in the atmosphere as the leaves exude the excess water. This water will condense in the air and create many clouds, which will cool down the soil even more as more the sun is covered, and rain wets the soil.
I am Montagnard indigenous central highland when I was grown up we have a thick jungles around us today Vietnamese take over all the jungles, forest destroy.
How many different species do you plant?
Diversify the plants and add self Seeding flowers that will keep the insects in check..
Where is your bear wolves and linxs????
Most of the deforestation happened in modern era. Look at the history of China, in Mao's era in the name of industrialisation, they wiped out billions of trees. Even in Middle East an Northern Africa had billions of hactors fo forest, which also disappeared in past century. It's not only grazing to blame; but the cutting of trees for fuel, furniture and house building without replacing or replanting also to be blame.
when it comes to cutting trees for furnature and houses thats a good thing because that locks away carbon
@@PowersOfDarkness Yes, less reliance on cheap plastic furniture (when breaks is unfixable, fills dumps, breaks down in sunlight to release CO2, ends up in oceans and all the rest of it). Also, wood is good for nursery toys. Natural colours are more restful for children.
Just wish supermarkets would each supply 'banks' for returning their plastic cartons for recycling. They are still pretty much as bad as they ever used to be with regard for plastic pollution.
plant more native trees.... please
They did try to plant native trees -- only a few species originally grew in Iceland -- but they didn't flourish, so they were forced to use non-native species.
Good people all over the world are trying to bring the ecosystem back in balance, but as long as corporate Greed and corruption of countries like America, Israel and allies continues, it'll be hard to save our world.
Forest > Glaciers
Honestly, 50 years of slightly warmer winters would do wonders for the vegetation, and little "damage" if you want to call it that, to the glaciers. Alarmists are the same no matter what the subject is, there's big money in sensationalizing the people, so they always exaggerate.
@@austrianpainterhidingfromt5920 people also exaggerate on the other side
@@austrianpainterhidingfromt5920 Glaciers melt floods happen people die...then it happens that the glaciers melt more then are gone the rivers they feed dry up more people die. God forbid you should worry!
@@williamjackson5942 Glaciers melt every year, people go on with their lives like normal, God forbid they worry like people in cities do....
@@austrianpainterhidingfromt5920 Those who died in the flood live lives like normal? Are you serious? There families ? Denial is a thing.... You I can ignore.
are there any indications of endemic, unique species now extinct?
Yes, over grassing is a problem, but so is under grassing. "Set stock rates" is the real problem.
You have to time it by the growth cycles of the pasture, where the human takes on the role of the apex predators moving the herd so they don't stay in one place. Herds need to be taken to the less fertile areas at the right timing, because how else are those areas going to increase in fertility?
Get with the program people!